Park and Persuasion

Because we were both couped up in the house most of the week, we all went to the park after Mimi and Dustin arrived at the house. Collin had a good time running up and down the paths leading to the slide sections of the playground equipment. I sat on the park bench while Mimi made sure that he was OK climbing and running around. Whenever he was thirsty or hungry, he would stop by where I was sitting for a drink or snack.

The last time he stopped by, he took his snack cup and took off running to his favorite tunnel on the equipment. He then sat there blocking the tunnel opening. He does this every time we play on this particular park equipment. Daddy and I think he is watching the other kids play and maybe figuring out how he can do the same thing. The park was getting busy so he was blocking the other kids from having fun. Neither Mimi or I were able to get him to move or even slide down the nearest slide. I eventually had the great idea of putting his sippie cup at the bottom of the slide and showed him were it was. This worked!! He moved and slid down the slide. Whew! I was hoping that we were not going to have to resort to other extraction methods.