One unique aspect of our current living situation (coupled with the newly potty-trained child) is that we are at least twenty minutes from, well, anything, thirty or more from town, and have I mentioned yet that we have to take our car seats in and out of the vehicles? What this means is that there isn't much exploring going on and therefore I don't know very many places to take Miss Thing for out-of-the-community fun.
We have ventured to City Mall, a relatively new completion only twenty minutes away. There are shops of all kinds from everywhere and two whole floors with play areas and arcade games.
We've gone to the play area twice now, the second time being our first no diapers outing. Yay for no accidents. Also, thanks to Miss Amanda and Adam for putting up with the bathroom trips. Here are some photos of our time there:
The main attraction is a blow-up bouncy house/slide combo complete with sea animals for riding and squishing.
Here she is with her friend K, whom we have missed while she's been in Australia.
Miss Thing desperately wanted to slide like her friends, but refused to go up the ladder until all other children left the area. Thankfully this did occur, and up she went. It was tough going, but once she figured it out, she was following Adam up there over and over again!
Of course, she does not go down on her tuckus; nope, we choose the tummy. It makes her happy, so it is fine with me!
On our second visit, she finally braved the trampoline area. There are four small trampolines on a raised surface. The nice thing is that they only let one child play on them at a time, so each has their own area and there is no bonking of heads.
We may have found out those were the rules after breaking them, but hey, now we know.
By the way, jumping is serious business.
Serious.
At the end of visit one, we all went to the City Market (small grocery store; big for here) to pick up a few items before we headed home. Miss Thing and I were done first, so we headed out to the lobby...
...where who did we meet, but Mortimer..erm..Mickey Mouse!
Is it really him!?! Why, yes it is!
(This is as close as she would get, but hey - she sat with him and let him touch her, so that is great.)
We took one final shot of the girls with Mickey before leaving.
At which point my child began crying.
Um, yeah.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Indeed.
We have ventured to City Mall, a relatively new completion only twenty minutes away. There are shops of all kinds from everywhere and two whole floors with play areas and arcade games.
We've gone to the play area twice now, the second time being our first no diapers outing. Yay for no accidents. Also, thanks to Miss Amanda and Adam for putting up with the bathroom trips. Here are some photos of our time there:
We may have found out those were the rules after breaking them, but hey, now we know.
At the end of visit one, we all went to the City Market (small grocery store; big for here) to pick up a few items before we headed home. Miss Thing and I were done first, so we headed out to the lobby...
(This is as close as she would get, but hey - she sat with him and let him touch her, so that is great.)
At which point my child began crying.
Um, yeah.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Indeed.
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