During the park outing, I grabbed my daughter's beloved rabbit and went to try and see if I could get him to pose for me. I can almost hear him laughing with me as we went throughout the play area of the park looking for places to take photos while my daughter was off playing on the swings or seesaws. I tried to get him to swing back and forth from the monkey bars but that was hard since he doesn't have opposable thumbs or a inner sense of balance. Swinging was kind of difficult also because of the whole thumb issue and the fact that he couldn't grab on to the swing chains for support. However, I set him down just once and he took advantage of the brief sense of freedom to take a ride down the "crinkly slide", as my daughter calls it. It's a slide made out of rollers instead of a solid metal chute and allows for adults like myself to have fun on it too. Turning around, I saw him going down the slide with what I was sure to be a huge smile on his face. His eyes were just gleaming with the excitement of being able to be a kid (stuffed rabbits are notorious fuddy-duds when they get a little older) and I pointed my camera to him at the right time to catch all of that. Shortly thereafter, my daughter realized what was going on and ran up to grab him from the fun we were having. Unbeknownst to her, we'll continue our daily chats about politics, sports, and whatnot while she is learning new things at school.
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