Centennial Park

Today we decided to hit up Centennial Park. As we came outside to get into the car this morning Camilla said to me, "Watch out for the Mozzie's mum!" Auntie Sue calls Mosquitoes 'Mozzies' and Camilla picked up on it super fast. Cutest thing ever. The park is located in the center of the city of Moncton and consists of 230 acres to enjoy. We only hit up Centennial Beach to cool off. There wasn't too many people there and the water was really nice!  We picked up some Oreos and fruit to snack on for the afternoon. Hyrum has never had an Oreo cookie before, so I giggled when he ate his first one the right way! He took it apart and licked the icing, then ate the cookie. That's my boy. 

When we finally got changed into our swim gear we found a nice spot on the sand to park. Hyrum played in the sand for a while and Camilla splashed her toes in the water.

 

The kids were so excited to swim. Hyrum has become such a water baby. He would hardly let me hold onto him while he waded in, even if he was about to fall over. I'm sure if I left him he would keep walking in until the water was well over his head. He enjoyed going to the shore and plowing into the water as fast as he could and falling into his Daddy's arms. His little giggles are so contagious! I love how confident he's become and how his love for water is growing.

Camilla was miss independent and played mostly on her own. Sometimes she would piggy back out into the water with one of us to cool off and swim. She made a few little friends along the way. It's so fun watching her socialize. It was nice and relaxing and the water was perfect to cool off on such a hot day!

 Hyrum started shivering from the cool water and with a little convincing came in for a quick snack. This kid could eat a whole carton of blueberries on his own I'm sure! He stuffed his cheeks with them for a good five minutes.

Camilla had a lot of fun playing with her Daddy while Hyrum munched away. She thought it was pretty fun to be covered up in sand. Every time she giggled the sand would slide down and Daddy would have to dump another bucket on. 

Dinner time came too soon! We could have stayed and played all day long. The beach started to clear out pretty quickly once 6:00pm hit. We decided it was time to get the kiddos some dinner and headed out for Chinese!