Bulldozer and Backyard Time

When Eli got up this morning he'd soaked through through his diaper, and his pajamas were a little wet. It was actually a blessing in disguise, because it meant that I got him in a clean diaper and REAL CLOTHES a few minutes after getting out of bed. Dendi came over this morning to watch Eli so I could go to my midwife appointment. Nothing new to report, everything looks good.

When I got home, after we ate lunch, we played outside for a couple of hours, mostly in the backyard. It's a beautiful, crisp fall day and we got to play with the accompaniment of a bulldozer. When we bought our house, the lot behind us was empty and wooded. We knew there was always a possibility that they could build on the lot, and finally last year someone bought it. They knocked down all the trees and moved dirt around for about six months of last year. Of course for a toddler boy it was like heaven. One of his first words was dump truck (duh-tra), and we spent many hours in the backyard watching the progress. Then, after about six months, everything stopped. They had built an orthodontic's office on the far side of the lot. But, nothing right behind our house. It was a mixed blessing. When they cleared out the trees, it reduced the bugs in our yard, but now there's just a big pile of dirt instead. Yesterday, they resumed construction. These first few pictures show the bulldozer, it's pretty small and behind the trees in the second shot.





Of course the noisy bulldozer only added to the excitement, and Eli had a ball (no pun intended) throwing a ball, retrieving it from the bushes with his shovel, playing with his loader and bulldozer and taking rocks and pinecones in and out of his house.












It's amazing what fun you can have outside when you decide to get dressed!