Picnicking and Paddling

This Fridays 'Adventure with Leah and Ruby' took place at Aquatic Park in the city. Mum packed my lunch into the stroller then picked up some goodies in the Ferry Building for her and Erika and we headed up to Aquatic Park to meet Ruby and Erika. Ruby was still conducting her random nap strike so we met her and Erika half way down the Embarcadero as Erika hoped to lull Ruby to sleep in her stroller which actually worked by the time we met them. Ruby is trying to keep her mum guessing by not providing any clues when she's tired or by throwing false clues at Erika and then not napping for more than an hour later. I'm napping like clockwork at the moment but I'm only giving mum 30 minutes at any one time so that she can't get too settled. I'm also considering dropping one of those naps soon but I'm not going to tell her which one.

Anyway luckily for me Ruby woke up by the time we got the beach so that we could all have our picnic at the same time. I had sweet potato and cereal and I heard mum say she'd sneaked some beans in there somewhere. Ruby had carrots. Ruby has only just started eating her solids but she's doing ever so well and ate lots of carrots up. I had my eye on what mum was eating and although she kept that doughnut thing to herself she did share her cheese wheel with me which I chewed on for ages.

Once we'd eaten our food and played with the blocks for a while mum and Erika decided it was time for us to experience all that weird looking yellowy/brown stuff that was all around us. Me and Rubes dug our hands in really deep and it felt really really funny, so weird in fact we both decided we needed to investigate this new stuff in the only way we know how. It tasted disgusting!!!! I'm not sure what our mums were thinking of to be honest and as soon as I had a taste I had to put up with mums fingers shoved in my mouth to try and get rid of it. YUCKKK!

I'm not sure whether Erika and mum then decided to punish us for trying to eat the sand but they then took us down to look at the sea which was very pretty and it kept coming in and out, in and out. Ruby and me looked at it for ages but then it came in too far and I got my feet wet. It was absolutely freezing!!! Mum thought it was very funny. Obviously Erika thought my reaction was funny too because she made Ruby touch the water too.

When they put us both on our mat to play afterwards me and Ruby had a bit of a chat and we decided that since our mums think this kind of 'play' is funny, that we'd show them what we find funny several times that night. We both decided that once we were put down to sleep that we'd try and stage a breakout. Ruby managed to break out of her crib very quickly that night, I got as far as rotating 90 degrees and getting my foot stuck but mum quickly put me round the right way again so I settled for shouting every 45 minutes or so instead until I got a bit too tired and slipped up by sleeping for 4 hours. I think I'll have a go and grabbing mums coffee next time and see if I can do better.

Later peeps!