This morning I ran my usual three mile loop around the outside of the neighborhood, with Cian on his bicycle. He spent some time on computer games both before and after. I fixed grilled cheese sandwiches, and he ate all of his with no complaints. He let me take a short nap after lunch. At 1:00 I let him go to his friends, Joey and Jeffery's house to play, but they weren't at home. So we decided to go to Lake Park. There is a BMX track there, which he wanted to try out, and I thought it would be fun just to ride our bicycles around the park.
I didn't have a bicycle rack for the car, and there was no way I could get both our bicycles into the car. So the first step was to go out and buy a bicycle rack. (Something that I had been wanting to do for some time.) We did that, then came back home and packed up the bicycles and headed out to Lake Park.
We found the park pretty much deserted, surprising since it is Spring Break week for the Hillsborough Country Public Schools. We parked at the BMX track and unloaded the bicycles.
There was one little boy on the BMX track, and he was just leaving (under duress from his mom) as we arrived. Cian made eight laps around the track before getting bored. Then we rode our bicycles back to the playground beside one of the lakes. This was about 3:00 PM and there were no kids at all on the playground equipment.
It was a very nice day, sunny, about 80 degrees. I sat at a shaded picnic table and read ( On an Irish Island, by Robert Kanigel ) and Cian played by himself on the playground equipment. Soon, kids started showing up, all Cian's age and down. Eventually there were about eight. They all played nicely. We stayed until about 4:15, when Cian was ready to go because he knew his dad would be home soon.
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Are you required to file a report daily?
No external requirement. But since the day went surprisingly well, I wanted to document it.
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