The Park

We've worked hard this week and played hard this week and after a morning at the tire store waiting forever to have our tires aligned, we decided it was time to visit the park!  We love the park.  Now that the weather is more predictably nice outside, Friday mornings are becoming park time.  We love to swing, we love to slide, we love to explore the sap dripping out of the trees, we love to walk around the half mile loop, we love to play on the tennis court.  It hit me today, though, that we hardly ever see other kids at the park in the mornings.  If our buddies come to meet us there, that's one thing, but in general, we don't usually find that other moms and kids are using the park.  There are a ton of adults walking or running around the loop, but we usually have the playground all to ourselves.  It's just another one of those things that makes me think, "What are people doing with their kids?"  Are all the other 4 and 5 year-olds in preschool?  Are all the other 2 and 3 year-olds at daycare?  Or do people choose to play in their backyards instead of coming to the park?  This park is in a nice neighborhood but with the exception of sweet Webb, we never see any of the kids who live there actually using the park!  I just think it's odd.  I know people do use the park, so they must go when we don't.  Now don't get me wrong, we do love having the place to ourselves, but I just wonder where everybody is....