Camping, Climbing, and Riding

Last weekend Lance went to camping with the scouts and decided to take Parker with him.  They seem to have had a good time, and it was fun to have a weekend with just me and Kaeson together. Parker came back full of exciting stories to tell!

Look how beautiful it is there!  

Kaeson is becoming more active and busy every day!  He is always wandering away and exploring something new everywhere we go.  He continues to climb on EVERYTHING!  I tried to capture a few of his recent climbs.
Here he's just playing at the park, and looking adorable.  He loves the park and loves to explore everything there.
One of his favorite climbing places!  It's nearly impossible to get dishes done when he's awake, because I cannot keep him out of there.
He LOVES the slides at the parks.  He climbs to the top all by himself, and slides down all on his own.  He's taken some pretty good spills at the bottom because he never waits until I'm around to catch him.  It's funny to see how different kids' personalities can be.  Parker was so old before we could even convince him to try the slides, and then he would do it one time and want nothing else to do with it!  

Apparently it's not fun enough to just sit and ride on his bike, but he has to balance on the little tiny sit and stand there!  Not only does he love to climb on things, but he always has to be as high as possible, so he is always standing on or in stuff.
Like so.  He won't sit in the stroller while we walk, he has to be standing the whole time.  And it doesn't do any good to sit him back down, because he just gets right back up again.
And again, climbing into the wagon, and then standing tall!
Here he is so proud of himself!
And again!  He climbs onto this table twenty times a day!  He hasn't mastered getting off of things just yet, so I have to get him back down, and then he's right back up!

He just learned this one yesterday!  It scares me to death.  Luckily so far, he's only figured out how to get to the second step, but it's only a matter of time before he figures out how to get all the way up.

And in other very exciting news: Parker finally learned how to ride his bike!  It was a very exciting accomplishment and he is very proud of himself.  He still has a tough time if he has to go uphill at all--it's a lot of work--but he is doing great and he loves it!