Our day at the park started with a scare. We hadn't been there a minute before Jalen darted off behind the big play set with some other kids and was out of sight for maybe 15 seconds.  In that period of time he disappeared.  Turns out he had followed the big kids out of the play area to the other side of the park about 200 meters away. Luckily it only took about two minutes to finally find him but those minutes seemed especially long knowing he isn't yet able to communicate to a stranger how to get in contact with his Mom or Dad.  Thus, tomorrow we will be visiting Holy City Tattoo and marking him with all the appropriate contact info -- all wrapped up in a cool tribal design.

After the scare, we managed to pull it together and have a great family outing. Check out Bird casually conquering the climbing wall.

He's growing up fast!