Out Swinging

The baby boy joy on these really speak for themselves. These were in late April.

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(Easter) Egg Sampler

That’s okay baby girl, you go ahead and sneak a starburst.

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Merry-go-ROUND

That time when TJ is walking to his apartment after a shift at work, sees his siblings at the park, and decides to join in on the fun for a little bit.

And yes, they are all holding on for dear life.

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Release the Swinger!

Another fun day at the park in early April.

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Park Pose – Middle Middle

And here we have the rare Newbie, holding still and posing for a picture.

I’m not quite sure where the pictures of Thunderer went, but the next picture in the blog archive goes to another day.

Sadly as I write this I’m going off what I have in dropbox safe and sound because the Mac where all of the pictures live and are backed up is dead. We should be able to recover them when I get a beefy enough computer and extra external hard drive to extract all my backups, but for a while yet I’m operating on what is supposed to be my gaming laptop for everything.

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Eldest Middle – Park Pose

For those of you unaware, as kids get older, while you’d think that they would then have the ability to stay still for pictures easier, the opposite is true. Once they’re older they don’t want to pose for pictures as much anymore because they supposedly have better things to do than let we, the parents, capture them at every age.

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April Park Candid – Lava Zombie Explained

At this point I don’t remember what they were playing. Probably the “lava zombie” game they made up.

What is “Lava Zombie” you ask?

It’s basically tag meets floor is lava.

So you start out with somebody “it” and then the rest of the players charge off. They have a limited time to get to high ground before the ground around the playground equipment becomes lava.

During lava, the person who is the “lava zombie” (it) can try to jump up and tag people but may not climb on the equipment themselves. If successful, those they tag climb down and join them in the lava and attempt to knock everyone else out.

Zombies are allowed to only walk but are allowed to go faster as there become more of them. So once they’re successfully at tagging the first person they’ll be able to speed walk, next, run, etc. At a certain point (the time is a bit arbitrary) they start counting down and then the floor is no longer lava. Everyone must change positions and zombies are now allowed to climb equipment. If, once lava is called again, somebody hasn’t moved (by changing levels on the playground equipment at the very least), they’re fair game to be climbed toward even during the lava period.

As the horde of lava zombies grow they’re allowed to start moving faster, remember, so the game is more about being the last one to be tagged than to never be tagged at all. At some point, everyone ends up being a zombie. We then reset and somebody else starts out as the single zombie. Try to rotate the role so everyone has a chance to start as the zombie.

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April Park Poses

Don’t mind us. We’re going to start in on the April 2022 pictures by going to the park on April Fool’s Day.

Now as you know, I have seven kids, so getting 3/7 in a great pose for pictures? That’s pretty darn priceless.

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Remembering Snow

It’s July, so now we’re missing the cold of winter as the heat of summer rears its ugly head.

I still say, you can do something about the cold. The heat? Not so much.

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December Snow Time-lapse

I know I usually post these to twitter and whatnot, but at the time I recorded it I wasn’t very active on twitter (not that I’m probably super active either right now, I know I’m not as I’m scheduling this post.)

As summer approaches though, why not remember an early December snow though?

Even got some help on this one, though without the tags I don’t think you’d be able to really tell how many of them were out there.

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