Weekend with Friends

Our three month checkup went good, Christian is moving right along...YAY!
We made a road trip to visit my childhood friend Susan and her family. Christian did ok in the car considering the long drive.  We did cow watch along the way, giving a shout out everytime we saw them, which was amazingly alot.  We did have to stop about half way, after 1 1/2 hours, to get out and stretch our legs.  We found an indoor play area in McDonald's that was new looking and very clean. (these place usually give me the heebie geebies because of all the germs).  I was a little concerned that once he started playing it would be a struggle to get him back in the car, but I really wanted him to get out and be able to run around for a little bit.  He climbed around on the play structure but wasn't too sure about crawling through the tube thing. It made a U-turn and he couldn't see the end so he didn't want to go inside. He was two levels up and inside and I couldn't get in there to get him. I finally convinced him to crawl through, he liked it and did several more times. The other levels were too high for him to climb up on so there wasn't much for him to do. After 15 minutes, he willingly came to me when I announced it was time to leave. Back in the car and he fell asleep for the last hour+ of the trip.

It took him about 15 minutes to warm up to Susan and then we was off investigating her house. I was of course, telling him not to touch this and that. Susan, her husband Joe and I took Christian to a park by the local school. They have a great new play unit with slides and climbing walls.  Christian did SO good climbing the rigging thing and fake rock wall steps to get up to the slides, I was so proud of him! It was cold and very windy there, so we went to the town park which was buffered from the wind.  He swung on the swing for a while and went down those slides a few times and we decided it was time to go because it was cold.

Off to get ice cream, which was great!  Then back to the house to play outside with a basketball, bubbles and sidewalk chalk.  We had a great time and Christian just loves to be outside. He did wake up twice, afraid of the strange room, but calmed down when he realized I was sleeping right beside him. We left early the next morning and had to make a few stops on the way home and both crashed for a two hour nap after we got home.  It was a nice trip and I enjoyed spending time with my friend and her family. Susan's boy was so good to play with Christian, despite the age difference, and everyone got hugs from Christian before we left.  Work tomorrow.....darn, another day off would be nice :)
~Amy