WEEKEND WARRIORS
For the past few months since Mommy started work, daddy and the kids have been weekend warriors.
The three of us get ready the same time as mommy. Daddy helps the kids get dressed, feeds them breakfast, gathers snacks and diapers, and even puts Macies hair in a pony tail. The destination- Parent link. Cold Lakes best free children's indoor playground and toy zone. Did I mention free...
It is always a struggle to get on the coats and boots and get out the door, but we manage to be some of the first families there ready to play at 900am. Wade always asks "playground, playground?" He loves the "playground"
Parent Link is really cool. There are so many toys to choose from. and They are cool toys. Wade loves the train set and the dinosaurs. The train set is on a small table screwed together, that has many different options to drive a train around and around. The dinosaurs are sweet. huge and cool looking. They always get a few moments for sure. The Kitchen has been garnering Wades attention and he loves to take the burger patty and give it to daddy saying "cookie". Dad loves the plastic burger cookie.
Macie is great on the play ground. She goes up and down on the slide and runs all around the top portion and waves through the windows making sure daddy waves back. Daddy has ventured a time or two up into the play ground, even enjoying a joyride down the slide a few times. Careful, the roof is low in the children playground.
Macie also loves colouring and doing crafts. Crafts of note:
- Hot Mug picture colouring. She coloured a piece of paper that sits around a hot mug, which was suppose to be daddies, but mace loved it too much to pass over.
- Similar idea but with a potting plant- Macie planted a few pink flowers - no buddy yet (Wade's Bean Sprout is kicking major chicken)
- oblek- made with white glue and borax, super cool feeling- similar to silly putty.
There is also a mini Trout hatchery going on now. The centre obtains a license to spawn rainbow trout.
We enjoy looking each week to see the development of the hatchlings. Eggs, Alvins, Frys and adults.
Right now the fish are at the alvin stage.
A few weeks ago, we were invited to a baptist bouncy castle event in Bonnyville. Being the weekend warrior I am, we were all over that. The event was at the sports centre. One whole field house was dedicated to the group. There were 5 bouncy castles and 5000 mini beach balls.
Wade spent much of his time running through the beach balls and kicking them and as many of them as far as he could. Laughing the whole time. Macie loved the bouncy castles. There were 3 obstacle courses, 1 slide, and 1 plane jane. She loved the slide and a 2 of the obstacle courses. She has no fear. Climbing up one wall and jumping down the other side. Most children just slide but not Macie. We were only there for a bout 2 hours as Wade was showing major signs of sleepy syndrome, so we left a bit early.
Macie had her first taste of carny food- Corndogs. She kind of liked them.. but only ate about 1/4 of it before jumping all over the purple snow cones.
Wade only went for the chips and green snow cones.
Today was a bit slower as Wade was feeling a bit under the weather. We broke out Daddies old Lego and played pirates. Daddy built a pretty cool ship, in which he was the captain and Macie was first mate. Wade fell in love with the lego alligators and sharks. He spent a bit of time brawling with them. The wrest of the day was batman focused. Wade is in love with batman. Dinosaurs may be lost forever. He runs around the house exclaiming "batman, I'm batman!!" Today Cat woman(Cobalt)got the best of batman. While Batman was running near a chair, the sly cat, took a swipe at the dark knight. He didn't like that. of course Cat woman only wanted to play, she jumped down and chased him, but Batman must be allergic to cats cause he ran up the white flag and ran to daddy. The remaining time spent as Batman, he was very cautious around Cat woman.
