Wildwood Park with Grandma Ruthe

We met Grandma Ruthe and her friend Linda for lunch at Rosa Maria's in San Bernadino, a place Joel remembers going to often when he was a kid. He and his sister Louise played soccer at Wildwood park just down the street.

We took our lunch to Wildwood park and let the kids play and get some Grandma Ruthe time.

Joel - having fun too...

Ethan is a bit of an aggressive one; he wants to do everything Evie does. He just goes for it whether it's dangerous or not - and has plenty of bumps and bruises to show for it.

That's our little monkey

Ethan was excited to be in the tree. Grandma Ruthe was making him laugh too. She is standing right in front of him.

Evie is gathering supplies to make a birds nest. Ethan is figuring out that dandelions don't taste good.

Joel and his mom Ruthe

Evie is making a birds nest in the flat spot on this tree. Ethan is just waiting for her to walk away so he can destroy it...

...and Ethan destroying Evie's bird nest. Somehow she was so sweet about it - she must have rebuilt it at least three times.

Did I mention that Ethan has a lot of bumps and bruises. Poor guy. He was reaching for the picnic table bench and missed and hit his head on the table leg.

I feel so bad for him every time I look at this picture. Not only was he tired and has a bit of a cold now he has this knot on his head...

We just pulled off the freeway on our way back to Joel's dad's place and got a glimpse of this totally bitchen Pontiac Fiero. Don't get too excited, I didn't see a for sale sign in the back window.