The Fun We Had
I'm watching. Dad is always watching.
A deal is a deal - she behaved and earned it by behaving 10 days in a row and with some negotiation on our end we said she can go to Fun City and also - bring a friend for even more fun.
And boy did we have fun. She brought her friend edith1 along and they had a great time chatting it up in the car on both the way there and the way back. Edith had so much fun that she didn’t want to go back home and wanted to go to our house.
It might have something to do with the fact that she asked for a “snack” and chose sour patch kids and BW asked if she was going to eat them all and Edith said to her “well..YEAH”
Bravery is a thing the child still needs to work on. Edith has no problems in that regard and was zip-lining and rock climing as if she compteted in the five and under age group and took home all the medals.
Ours? She skews closer to the “also ran” category when it comes to having the fear.
Just look at the face on the photo below - does that look like full on fear to you? It does to me.
But all was not lost and we had a bravery award or two for her as she overcame her fear to jump in the foam pit from the top row and once she got that crossed off the fear list she was ready to go all day jumping into the ball pit over and over.
When the time came to go there was a bit of struggle because she didn’t want to lave the foam pit.
The adults also had fun. BW and I found some massager chairs to sit in and watch our child and her friend run themselves ragged - and they did. I have no idea how anybody was still standing at the end of it, but somehow they made it home without falling asleep in the car.
We all had a good time - even the adults, which is not what you would think would be fun for us at our age : running around a indoor play park to the sound of your kid and about 100 plus other kids all saying the same thing:
Mom! Watch ME!
Keeping it in the air,
TH and Co.
Not her real name, obvs.