Current mood: adventurous
For anyone who lives in Riverside or has lived in Riverside, especially during the Summer, knows its nearly impossible to go outside to play 3-4 months out of the year since its so extremely HOT! and I am talking 105+ HOT, everyday!
This year was no exception. I have been dying to get Mia out to the park across the street to run around and play but the weather has been relentless. Thank goodness the worse is over and its finally September. Though it still heats up to mid-90s everyday its still pretty tolerable. I still won't go outside to play though, its just to hot for me and Mia.
However, today was unusually cool. I was surprised, I quickly jumped on the internet and checked weather.com to see how hot it would get today. It said the upper 80s as the highest! Whoa!!! The rest of the week was mid to upper 90s so you better believe I jumped at the chance to take Mia out to the park in the morning while it was still cool.
I fed her breakfast, got her dressed up (she actually got to wear pants today, that is a first in about 4-5 months!) and I got ready myself and off we went across the street to the park. It was a beautiful morning out, some clouds a breeze and a tad bit warm. I originally wanted to have her run around in the grass, but after walking through it a bit I realized it was still to wet. So I walked her to the jungle gym area. There is concrete all around it and I thought it would be perfect for her to walk around.
I put her down and she was off in a flash. She was so excited to be outside and walking around freely. She let out some screams of excitement and just chattered away exploring her new land. She found a huge leaf and walked around with it. Any other leaves or twigs she came across she gave to me as a present. She had a blast, and I had fun taking her pictures. Then I realized something, I put her pants on backwards!!! Oh no!!! The draw string was sticking out the back! Sigh... I tried to hide it for most pictures but I am sure some still came out with it hanging out.. another new Mama mistake haha. Anyways she had fun, later I put her on the concrete running track to check out the plants there. She had fun picking plants and looking at the ants running around the crushed snail bodies. Thank goodness she didn't decide to touch those! Everything was going great till it started to warm up more. I think she started to notice because eventually she stopped walking and just sat on the ground. I knew she must have been getting tired since we had already out there almost an hour. So I picked her up and started our way back home. I thought I would take a short cut up the dirt so I could cut across the park instead of walking around it on the trail. BIG MISTAKE!!!! mud + my sandles = disaster! Sure enough I lost my footing and the more I tried to regain control the more it made things worse.. then BLAM! I hit the ground with Mia in my arms. Luckily she wasn't hurt, she didn't even touch the ground... the only thing that happened to her was her hat flew off with the impact. I on the other hand got all the scrapes and cuts on my legs and mud all over me!!! I quickly got up, checked Mia then attempted to put her down so I could grab her hat on top of the muddy hill. However, Mia was upset, not crying but scared from what happened, and refused to let me put her down. Whenever I did, then she would cry. So I picked her up and stepped on some shrubs for footing and managed to reach out for her hat without falling again. I was still so embarassed by the whole thing, I haven't fallen on the ground in years! I really wanted to go back home by then, plus Mia didn't want to walk around anymore. So I headed back home, I passed by a lady walking her dog around the park and I hoped she didn't see the fall happen I was so embarassed, then again I was covered in mud and Mia was upset.. I think if she didn't see it happen she could put two and two together haha Ah well... anyways we made it home and I let her run around a bit inside before putting her down for a nap.
Phew what an adventure... there is never a dull moment with Mia around!
