So this has been quite an exciting week for Colby...he has gotton to do fun activities every day. It normally is not like this I mean I try to get him out of the house every day but not necessarily to a really cool special place several times a week. But between our kitchen being worked on and Austin being off we have had more chances to get out and about. Today once again we had work going on in our kitchen and we had the idea of just driving to Slidell to get out for several hours.
We first went to the Wiggle Room. I had never been before but had heard great things about it. It was a wonderful place for little ones. Very clean and lots of places for them to play. Adults and kids had to take their shoes off when entering the play area and put on socks. I really liked this idea because then you knew the ground was clean. For the first hour we had the entire place to ourselves which was nice. It finally started filling up though around 10:30. Colby played with a few other kids but mostly did his own thing. I loved that it ws such a relaxing environment. It was all imaginative/manipulative play and no loud noises.
I definitely will be making a drive back over there in the near future. After the playtime we went to Cracker Barrel to meet Austin's parents there for lunch. Since we had to be out of our house anyway we figured why not? It was good to see them and Colby enjoyed visiting with them. He had a HUGE meltdown in Cracker Barrel though. We went in and he immediatley headed for the toys and the cars. Well he picked up about 3 cars and headed towards the dining area. Austin told him he had to put them all back. Well this caused a HUGE meltdown and I really felt bad for Colby b/c he's still too young to understand why he couldn't just pick all those cars up like at home and carry them away I think. We went on to sit down and Colby was pitching a fit...screaming, kicking, crocodile tears, twisting and contorting his body...honestly I don't think I have ever seen him pitch such a fit! Even once we sat down and he got settled in he would still tear up wanting to go back and get them. Finally austin gave in...he went and bought him a car. Once he got the car he was fine...now don't get us wrong...we don't believe in giving in to our child at his every whim or buying him toys everywhere we go but this was different. 1) He had no idea the concept of those belonged to the store and 2) Our whole visit/lunch would have been ruined because he doesn't give up easily. So all ended well ofcourse now we have 2 more cars to add to our ever growing of like 80+ cars...oh well though!
After we got home our contractor was still working so we thought we would all lay down in Colby's room and have a "camp out" yea thats funny...no one really slept...I think Austin and I dozed for like 10 minutes but Colby never did sleep! Finally we gave up and let him just play! The rest of our day was just pretty much straightening up our house and eating dinner and getting Colby to bed.
I will be so glad when all this kitchen stuff is done! When its all said and done it will have been going on over 2 weeks!
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