Tuesday A.K.A. Our first day in Monterey without Ty

There's a really cool park here in Monterey called Dennis the Menace park. You can see it from the road that we take to get everywhere and we'd been wanting to take the boys there ever since we got here. Since Ty was going to be in class all day for the first time on Tuesday, I decided that was a good time to go and use up some of our free time. We made it to the park without incident, only there was a sign saying, "The park is closed today." Leo was incredibly bummed, since he could now see that the park had a big, old steam engine he could crawl all over. I told him that we would go to another park and come back to the choo-choo train park later. We ended up going to the park by our new house. (Which, by the way, is one of the coolest parks I've ever seen. And another one of the coolest parks I've ever seen is just around the corner from us. You really should come out here and see it for yourself. We have an extra bedroom you can stay in . . . I'm just sayin'.) While we were there I talked to another mom ans she said, "Oh, the Dennis the Menace park is only closed in the morning. You can go back later." So I told Leo that we just had to put Jay down for a nap and we could go as soon as he woke up.
3 Hours Later:
We went back to the Dennis the Menace park and it was still closed. Apparently they are not open on Tuesdays during the school year. So we ended up going to the park on the military base, which is nothing to write home about. (Which is ironic because I am, in fact, writing home about it right now.)

Jay is pretty much a pro at going up and down the stairs, but you have to push him down the slides kicking and screaming. (Don't worry, he usually likes it once he's going down.)

Leo has become aware of his mortality. He is now reluctant to do things that he used to do without a second thought. Like climb up these:

Jay thought it was hilarious to climb back and forth through these so I couldn't get a picture of him.

Leo, sliding like a pro.

Just being cute.

This next picture has a horrifying story. You might want to skip it if you don't like spiders.

This whole play structure is covered with spider webs, but I hadn't seen any spiders. I assumed they were dead for the winter or something. While we were at the park Leo stuck his finger in a hole above one of the tubes. He immediately said, "Ow!" and yanked his finger out. It was followed by a furious spider who ran out so fast he fell down into the sand. I looked in the hole and there were at least two other spiders in there. Leo didn't actually get bit (I think the "ow!" was from scraping his finger on a little piece of plastic that was sticking out) but we went home right after that. While I was looking at his finger and asking if the spider bit him Leo asked, "Why was he so mad mom?"