Fun with Dakota

This is actually from a couple of weeks ago...but humor me and pretend that this just happened and I'm blogging about it.  :)

Do you ever wonder how kid's little brains work?  What are they thinking?  How do they come up with their own logic?  Yeah.  I wonder that all the time with Dakota, just in the small amounts of time I see him (usually once or twice a week).

On this particular day, as usual, he only wanted to go outside.  So here we go..Aunt Manda and Dakota, out for a walk.  We went out the back door...and the first thing he wanted to go to was the merry-go-round.  So here we go...across the back yard.

To the merry-go-round!

Once there, he knew exactly what to do.  This was slightly impressive, since there were no boards on it until just about a week before we took this walk.  :)

Let's go!

After pushing himself around on there for a few minutes, his little brain came up with a new game.  Climbing through the merry-go-round.

Hmm...Now what do I want to do?

Upon getting out of the merry-go-round, Dakota found a small tree branch that was laying in the yard.  Now the new game was picking up the branch and swinging it.

Batter up!

After a few swings, Dakota decided that just swinging the branch wasn't enough.  He began to swing it, trying to hit other tree branches...the ones still attached to the trees.

Since the trees weren't swinging back at him, he got bored and moved on to something else... the corn.

And since the corn didn't do anything fun, he moved on again.  This time, it was the clothesline pole.  He spent a few minutes, hanging from it and swinging around the pole.

Then we found ourselves in the front of the house and headed towards the garage.  Inside the garage was the red wagon.  Up next...one exciting wagon ride (with Dakota as the driver).

It was so interesting, just trailing along behind him...wondering where he would go next.  :)  First wagon stop was in the yard...to pick up some leaves.

Leaves need a ride sometimes, too.

After picking up the leaves and putting them in the wagon, he was off again.  He continued across the yard to the back of the house, and the gravel next to the deck.

Come on rocks, let's go!

After piling in the rocks, he was off again.  This time to the gazebo, where the wood chips were apparently the next thing on his list.

I'm coming, wood chips!

He left the gazebo and headed towards the shop.  After all, that is the place with all the things that have wheels.

Goodbye, gazebo!

Hello Papa's shop!

I was actually pretty surprised about our trip into the shop.  He stood in the doorway for a few seconds and looked around.  Then went straight to the soccer ball and grabbed it, then threw it into the wagon...and we were off again.  I had to laugh, too, because every time the ball would roll to the back of the wagon, Dakota would stop and go put it back at the front.  He got so frustrated because it kept moving to the back of the wagon.  :)

Come on, ball!

Eventually we found ourselves back at the front of the house again.  He parked the wagon (with all the stuff inside) back in the garage and went up on the little porch.  I guess he must have been tired, because he then climbed up on the little bench and posed with the bunny.

Hello there!

This concluded our outside time.  It was really humid that day, and even Dakota was soaked in sweat!  ha ha.