Picnic in the Neighborhood

I took the boys over to the pond in the nature preserve in our neighborhood for a picnic today.  I've been meaning to go over there for awhile now and walk around the pond but just finally got around to it.  They recently installed steps down to the pond and did some more landscaping so it's looking really nice now.

Carter wanted to ride his balance bike there but made it only about a third of the way.  I had the double BOB so he rode in that the rest of the way and the bike rode on top of the sunshades.

The boys sat for about 2 minutes to eat and then were off to play.

Carter asked me to take his picture in front of the water (he still doesn't pronounce water correctly and Rylan says it almost the same way he does).

Then he said he wanted me to take his picture while he made some silly faces.

The boys favorite thing to do was to throw rocks into the water.  They probably raised the water level a few inches :)

It's hard to see, but there were hundreds of frogs at the edge of the water (if you zoom in this picture, you can probably see some of the frogs).  Next time I'll bring my zoom lens and get some better pictures of the frogs.  The boys loved running along the edge of the pond and making all the frogs either jump into the water or dive under if they were already in.

Rylan loved throwing rocks as much as Carter.

Blowing on a dandelion ...

The boys picked tons of flowers (weeds) and gave them all to me :)

We stayed about an hour until Carter had a potty accident.  He hadn't gone in about 4 hours so it was expected.  I knew right before that he needed to go but he told me that he didn't so I let him be.  He's doing great though and still hasn't had an accident when we've been out in public (only around the house).