Kid's Day in the Park

This morning, we met one of Collin's friends, Melia at the Kid's Day in the park. There were LOTS of freebies for the kids, animals to pet, ice cream and bouncing equipment. Collin got to check out several animals. The first picture, Collin was not so sure he liked the lizard. It was crawling around in the cage and doing nothing scary...but it was scary enough for Collin because he started to cry and walked away. We walked around some more until he saw the bouncing gym thing. He made a bee line down the hill to were it was. At least it was in the shade or it would have been WAY too hot for him to jump in.

At first, he watched the older kids jump like he has before when he has gotten into one of these. He then started to walk and jump himself. He jumped, fell, got back up, jumped and crawled around for at least 20 - 25 minutes. His little cheeks were red. I kept asking him to get out and finally had to crawl in there myself and "extract" him. He, of course, was not happy. I knew he was tired, hot and probably needed some water. I bought some Italian ice and shared it with him. I purposely got the blue raspberry which colored both of our lips. He thought that was funny. After resting for a little while in the shade of daddy's bike shop tent, he got up and ran off to the next blow up gym. This one was fun because it had a basketball hoop on each end. It was for older kids and Collin was not happy about it.

I knew it was time for lunch and we needed to get in the A/C. We left the park and met Melia and her mom at Mission Burrito because there is a sandbox there for the kids to play in. They had a great time. Collin mainly played with the trucks in between throwing sand on himself and the other kids in the sandbox. He was having so much fun that he did not want to stop and eat. It's going to be one of those days.

It was time for the second extraction of the day since I knew Collin needed a nap....but not before a shower since he was sticky, stinky, sweating and sandy. Sounds like a boy, right?