When I get home, I like to take the kids outside. It's my only goal these days: get them out of the house, active, and tired. They days are getting shorter and I want them to have adventures. I bought them both house slippers the other day. When I left this morning, they were both crawling around the flood pretension to be cats. Even Tomris gives as odd little me-ooow. When I came home today, they were doing it again. They both had their new slippers on. Tomris was putting her slippered foot into her Baba's slippers and walking around that way. I told them we'd go outside and they eagerly found their new sneakers (another purchase we made this weekend). Teoman still isn't potty trained (and still showing very little interest) and so I had to change him first. He usually resists this, and I usually ignore his complaints, but today I told him he could run faster with a clean diaper -- so he readily agreed to be changed. I put on his new shoes and had him jump to "test" his new shoes. Yep, they worked just fine. We left the apartment and went to the elevator - both kids promptly sit in the elevator. I'm not sure why, but that's their thing. They love to sit in elevators. We went outside wearing long-sleeve shirts and pants with the sun lowering in the sky. We walked down the sidewalk. Teoman wanted to watch on the cement ledge between the sidewalk and the grassy park on the other side. It was about waist-high, so I lifted him up to walk. Tomris saw this and wanted to do the same thing. "Copy-paste" is what Tolga calls her sometimes. We turned the corner into the park's entrance and Teoman pointed out his shadow. Tomris began walking down the many steps with the help of the nanny, and I followed with Teoman. We got to the bottom and Teoman drove his motorcycle on the ledge the whole way down. At the bottom the wandered around, showing no interest in the slides today, but rather the rocks and dirt and curbs. We continued down the second long section of stairs to the bottom area where the swings were. "Mom," Teoman said, "Can I?" He was asking permission to play on the theater steps that bank the staircase. I don't let him play on the theater seats because he has fallen when he's not looking, but I gave him permission to run along the bottom. I put Tomris in the swing and gave her a few big pushes. She kept pointing at the empty swing next to her for abi to come and join her. But, Teoman and moved up another flight of stairs to drive his car. Tomris climbed down and walked over to the teeter-totter, sitting on the lowered seat. Teoman was calling me to come join him. I convinced Tomris to follow her abi up the new flight of stairs. Teoman continued driving his motorcycle up the ledge to the top. Tomris took a break mid-flight and sat on the curb, telling me to otur! I didn't and she climbed the curb and decided to scale the grassy hill on all fours. Teoman saw this, and remembering the fun of climbing hills, came running back to join us - he stopped and went back for his motorcycle, gave it to me, and scrambled up the hill. He found a dandelion and tried to blow it's soft seeds away. I found one too and blew it. He shook his off and begun to hunt for more. I trailed behind the two keeping an eye out for dog poop to redirect them around. We crossed the path to another grassy knoll found some more dandelions - I gave one to Teoman one to Tomris. Teoman shook his, Tomris ate hers. We walked under some pine trees that were mixed with chestnut trees. Chestnuts are covered in a spiky shell and the shells split open when ripe and the chestnuts fall to the ground. We threw chestnuts for while, watching them roll down the hill. Tomris tried to collect as many as she could and walk with them, dropping them periodically because there were too many. Teoman tripped over a root of a tree and asked, "What's this?" I explained it's the legs of the tree and showed him how they went to the base of the tree. I told him how they collected water for the inside of the tree and it went up the trunk to the trees arms, giving water to the leaves to make them green. Then I showed him the grass, and pulled some weeds out by the root - we looked at the roots and Teoman pulled more grass out with some dirt. We moved back towards the slides and Teoman surveyed his surroundings and said,"We went far!" Pointing to how we had gone down the stairs, around, up the stairs and back - making a full circle.
Everything's an adventure.
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