Photo TR - Connor's first solo trip on a playground slide.

[pete4winds]

This was just about a month ago, during that stretch of really nice mid-April weather New England had. For the Southern New Englanders here that would recognize the name, this is at Pierce Beach playground in Somerset. When Connor was two months old, I took him on a huge hillside slide at this playground (somewhere there's a PTR of it), and on this recent visit (he's just shy of 13 months in these photos), he had his first solo "slide credit," on one of the MUCH smaller kiddie slides. This TR also includes Connor's first POSITIVE experience with beach sand...more on that in the captions.

We had to wash his eyes out with my water bottle, but this time around, he was already an old pro...guess he remembered what not to do.

As mentioned, Connor's first POSITIVE experience with sand. His FIRST experience was at this same playground's beach at two months old, and he fell forward and faceplanted in it.

And next she takes her son for another spin. Look at that face and tell me his first coaster credit isn't just around the corner!

But occasionally he enjoys company...my wife Jen, in this case.

AJ is much older than Connor, so he's already a solo bigger-slide champ.

Daddy and Connor graduate to the next bigger slide.

Another trip down the slide. It was only about three feet long, but when you're not even 14 months, yeah, it counts.

This is our friend Tawny and her son, the aforementioned AJ.

Nah, we don't look alike...

Clearly a coaster enthusiast in the making.

Kid-slide, take 1.

In these first three pictures, Connor has misappropriated his friend AJ's snacks and is redistributing them to himself (Navy-speak for stolen).

[Emiroo]

Very cute.

 

And trust, me the days will go by in a blink. You'll be glad you took this TR. I just took my second child on his first trip to Holiday World. He loved the rides just like his big brother.

 

I was left wondering how the hell we got to this point. It just seemed like I was driving my wife to the hospitial to have our first...