Saturday morning, bright & early, Kaylynn and I had breakfast, played and got ready for our day. Our first plan was to go to Eagle's Nest, an indoor playground. It was sunny, but in the 30s, so indoors seemed the best place to be. Julian, who's still not feeling well, bucked up and came with us. We got there right when they opened so there were very few kids. Hindsight being what it is, it would have been a good time to play in the big kids' area first. But we didn't do that. We went to the toddler area and she did the usual - up & down the slide, in & out of the balls, play in the tree, walk across the walk-across thingy, jump on the padded mats...
After a while, Julian thought we should try the big kid area. One of us would have to crawl through there with her. Guess who got elected? So, claustrophobic me crawled through what was basically a kid-sized habitrail. We went up stairs that were too big for her to climb herself, so she would stand on my leg to hoist herself up, then I'd climb up & she'd do it again. The first slide we tried was a twisty one and, in my opinion, way too long and fast. We climbed up and around again and tried some different slides, which I think we both liked better. There were lots of other things to climb on and through before getting to the slide, too. One skinned elbow (mine) and a few bruises later (also mine) we were giggling and having a blast and then took a break to eat some snacks.
Tracey & Al (gammy & gampy) met us there around 11 and she was very happy to see them. She was also pretty tired! I guess she rolled the ball around with them but was ready to go back to their place.
Sunday evening she came back around 6:30. She cried so hard about them leaving that it was heartbreaking. However, she did stop crying by the time they pulled out of the driveway. Willy kissed her face and she said "shoo shoo wee" and that was the end of the tears. Redirecting to coloring was relatively easy to do, and pretty soon we were all giggling about something or other. We got her ready for bed and she didn't even complain a little bit. She hadn't had a nap, so she was exhausted and fell asleep before we closed her bedroom door.
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