National Park/Lennon

It has been a pretty rainy couple of weeks which means we haven’t been doing very much so today I thought I would just tell you about our fun trip to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and then a little about what Lennon’s been up to.

The national park is only a 30 minute drive from where we live, and it’s a really pretty drive and there are actually a couple ski resorts there! The hills are like bunny hills from what we could see, it was pretty funny.  Inside the park there’s a path that follows the old Erie Canal, this is the path the donkeys used to walk on while they pulled the boats down the canal (the tow path). We were planning to walk up the path about 4 miles and ride the Cuyahoga Valley railroad train back, but once we got there we found out that the train rides had been cancelled for the day because of all the rain, the bridges were flooding! We ended up just getting some ice cream and walking up the path a little ways so we could see the canal. It was really neat to see the canal and all the old houses and farms along the sides of it. We drove around the park after that and saw a cool covered bridge and Brandywine falls. The ranger said the falls has never had so much water coming down, it’s really crazy the amount of rain we’ve been getting out here.

Enough about all that, let’s talk about Lennon. My little guy is 16 months old!

He loves to read books, play with cars, and his giant lego set. He likes to watch all the bugs and birds he sees outside. He will spot an ant on the ground and follow it around saying “anch, anch” which is his version of “ant”. He likes to watch trucks, tractors, motorcycles, airplanes, anything that makes a sound. One of his favorite things to do is go on walks and just watch and point at all the cars he sees. He’s been really cute lately, he’s starting to really laugh hard. The other night he was laughing so hard in the bathtub he had tears rolling down his face. It’s so fun to see him become this little human with a real personality.