Staying Connected: Bigfoot, Soccer and Slides OH MY!

Monday, September 06, 2010

Bigfoot, Soccer and Slides OH MY!

Noah has discovered Monster Trucks - he loves them....even sleeps with them. He gets to pick a new Monster Truck out of his Treasure Chest (when he fills his good behavior sticker chart) and for the next several weeks - thats all the wants to play with! It goes to the store with us, it takes a bath, it sleeps with him, it goes on play dates, it - goes - everywhere with us! Our church recently had a grand opening event and there was a monster truck RIDE there. Kevin took Noah to ride in the back of a REAL Monster Truck - he LOVED IT!!!! I thought he would be too scared, but no.......oh no.....he talks about it STILL and asks where the truck is every time we go to church now!

They also had horses playing soccer - WHO KNEW?!??!?!

Also, we fell in love with great big blow up slides this summer. There is a place we can take our kids ($7 per child) and jump for about 2 hours on different kids of slides and mazes and trampolines. Its called PUMP IT UP - and its almost like Heaven according to Noah. Its pretty much a room with padded walls and fun things where you can let your kid go wild without too much worry. So its almost like Heaven according to ME too! EXCEPT when your child climbs all the way to the top of the tallest slide and then gets too scared to slide down - and you have to climb up there and rescue him but then realize that the only way down is ....down the very large steep slide with all your adult friends waiting down at the bottom watching ....and waiting...and waiting some more. I might have heard crickets....Well, its not so graceful looking as an adult, let me tell you. We went so fast (I had both boys on my lap) that we went OFF the slide OVER the emergency brake bumper and landed flat on our tooshies on the padded mat on the floor...people laughed. After that - Noah looked at me and said "LETS DO THAT AGAIN MOMMY!!!!!!" and he was a blur of motion and crazy happiness after that. - its the best $7 I ever spent...the both slept like ROCKS!!!

The down side - Every family we went with got sick with a stomach bug for the entire rest of the week. But, it must have been worth it because we are all going again this month!