SC Full Day #2

Carrie swept the floors with Shane after his morning cartoons and pop tarts.

I collected the change that tumbled out!

You wouldn't have thought a dine and a penny would cause such a consternation.

Pop told a story about them. Shane found two dimes and two pennies at the playground. Cole wanted him to split the find, so Shane gave Cole two pennies and tried to keep the two dimes! Pop evened the odds which explained why Shane was 11 cents richer when Carrie dragged him.

Nana and Pop took Shane to the children's museum and Carrie and I had another morning off! Happy days! This time, Carrie spent over an hour and a half on hold for a business call. We played WoW together to pass the time. Indy makes a better photo op, though. I took her outside during one of the periods Carrie got to talk to a human.

Shane came back with an awesome little machine.

Their was an exhibit where he got to use an electric toothbrush to make a 'writing robot.'

There was a pen attached to a decorated, Styrofoam body.

When you turned on the toothbrush it vibrated the pen all over. Viola! A writing robot. That's an amazing program for a kid's museum.

Nap time hit all over the house around 2 PM. Carrie hadn't meant to nap (But I meant to cover her with pillows).

Shane (reluctantly) sat down to do his writing practice. He wanted to earn his electronics time. I wanted him to earn it, as well, because it's easier to keep him quiet while everyone naps!

After nap, I took Shane out to Legacy Park to meet Kathleen and her kids. Shane got his climbing out before they arrived.

We moved into the park proper when the cousins arrived.

Nana had wanted to come, but I told her to stay home. VBS was due to start the next day and I knew Pop wanted to plan.

The tot lot was impressive.

There were even chimes.

But the playground proper was even more remarkable.

Kathleen had said, "It reminds me of Orange Hunt's playground as a kid." She was right.

It was a climbing maze for kids.

The group mostly stuck together in the beginning (with a few climbing exceptions).

Sneaking up on the kids is my own little game in between taking pictures.

I'm trying to get Shane to realize how important perspective is. I snuck up on him by keeping the slide between us once and then told him how I did it. Not that he listened. He was already whirling on to the next thing. Overstimulated and hyper as can be.

Other kids started to come into the fray when Shane set up a trap on the slide.

Then he set up another trap.

Then he was a monster playing chase with a group of boys. They ran all over the playground and Cole had trouble keeping up. Which may not have been a horrible thing, because the boys were borderline too physical the whole time. My eyes kept scanning to see if any parents were getting upset by the semi-wrestling and running.

Ka and I took all of the kids to explore another side of the playground for a mini-reset. It helped Cole get back into the mix.

Shane's new wild crew eventually came looking for 'the monster.'

The group had shrunk down and now it was Shane, Cole, and Unnamed Kid #3. They hung out on a tire swing and worked to survive and defeat zombies together (I liked that they were co-operating! I told Shane so, too).

The playground population seemed to be thinning out for dinner time.

It really was an amazing playground. I enjoyed the shade from the big tree in the middle of it.

The girls moved in on the tire swing once the boys left. We'd spent a couple of hours at the park and it was time to head home, though.

It started to plop drops of rain on us as we were trying to get the kids to go. The timing was perfect. The rain threatened enough to lend urgency to leaving, but waited until we'd gotten drinks of water and made it back to the cars.