The great outdoors (aka the backyard)

Pookie is not a fan of grass.  I find this remarkably funny, because Rob is a landscaper.  I don't think Pookie likes the feel of it.  I can't say that I blame the kid, it does feel a little scratchy.  For the past year, whenever I try to put Pookie on the grass, he lifts his feet up.  Pookie will go to great lengths to make sure he is touching the least amount of lawn possible. 

Last Monday, Pookie got his first pair of real shoes!  He is very proud of his new shoes and loves to show them off to people.  Later in the week, we had gone for a walk and when we got home I tried to get Pookie to walk on the lawn.  He kept making a bee line to the nearest form of pavement he could find.  Poor kid.  I finally managed to get him to walk around on the lawn.  Of course he aimed himself for the most dangerous part of the back yard.  At the end of our property is a piece of city owned land.  The edge of our backyard drops off and is covered in rocks.  At the bottom the rocks there is an area that tends to get a little swampy with wet weather.  It's full of trees, brush and an assortment of wildlife.  I'm sure Pookie is going to have a grand old time playing back there when he gets older.  For now, all I can think of is Pookie trying to walk on the rocks.  Then slipping, falling and getting cut up by the various debris. 

At the edge of the rocks there is a rather large tree.  Rob has taken an arm of it off and has left the stump behind.  Of course the stump has some very interesting splinters coming out of it.  That means that Pookie is beyond interested in this stump.  I think it helps that it's about Pookie height and the that Dada cut it down.  Nothing like having something right at eye level.  This means that every time we are in the yard, we need to go and visit the stump.  Pookie proceeds to point at it and say dada, in a quiet voice.  Yes, Dada cut down that part of the tree, I reply.  It has gotten to the point where one of our neighbors was at her window and called out, mentioning how Pookie is in his favorite spot.  We have since introduced Dada to the infamous spot.  He was appropriately impressed.