Finger Painting & Train Rides

On the weekends I try to find activities to do with the big man to entertain him. When I look at the events that are going on in the Valley I find that the big man is too young. He's at that age where he's close to the age where he can participate in events, but just not quite old enough yet. I am sure by the time the winter events happen he should be able to attend stuff and have fun. 

I turned to Pinterest for ideas. I found a finger painting idea that should have occupied him for an hour, but it only lasted five minutes. Big time bummer! I guess he doesn't have mommy's creative artsy side in him. Since he is too young for actual finger painting I put the paint in a gallon ziplock bag and used contact paper to tape it to the glass sliding door. 

I was showing him the colors and how mixing them together makes orange. I even spelled his name and did everything to get him interested, but after five minutes he moved on to bigger and better things. 

After the finger painting fail I had to figure out what to do with him on Sunday to break up the day. The railroad park came to mind. I don't know why I didn't think of it the prior weekend when grandma Laura was in town because it would have been a good activity to do then. We took him to the park where he just LOVED the people watching...of course. We rode the train around the park together and he just loved it!

We also swung on the swing where he was more interested in what the kid next to him was doing. 

I tried to see if he would like to play in the sprinkler/misters they had in the park to cool off, but he was not interested. After that it was pretty hot so we headed home. Next time we will have to hit up the carousel that they have.