Hi Plane!

Our house is pretty close to BWI airport. Peyton can recognize the sounds of planes when they fly by. If we're outside and he hears a plane, he'll immediately stop and look up at the sky to try to find it. He likes to check them out.

Friday evening, Kyle and I took Peyton to a playground that is right next to the runways for BWI. All of the planes that land at BWI fly right past you as they prepare to touch down. The first picture is taken at the point where you can first see the plane in the distance. The second picture shows how close the planes are to you when they fly by.

The planes go by about once per minute. Each time one would fly by, Peyton would stop what he was doing so that he could wave and yell "Hi plane!" After the plane had passed, he was right back to playing on the playground.

This playground was cooler than the playground that we have in our community. This one had a total of five slides, a few climbing structures, and a bouncy bridge. Peyton had a good time going down all of the slides. He would slide down and then go right back around to slide again. Kyle stayed at the top of the slide to help Peyton and I stayed at the bottom to snap pictures! Every time Peyton would reach the bottom, he'd ask, "One more?" Not sure where he got that, but it was funny.

The only problem with the playground was that it was very busy. The older kids could have cared less that Peyton was there. He was getting trampled and pushed out of the way. And the parents of the year that were there to supervise were all too busy sitting on the benches talking on their cell phones to say anything to their kids. Annoying.

Peyton was having a blast playing on the slides and waving to the planes. Needless to say, he didn't want to go home...