park, lunch and monkey joes

Tuesday morning, we went with Nana and Poppy to a great park in Gainesville with a beautiful scenic walking trail that goes straight to their downtown square. The boys had a great time climbing and sliding and when they had worn themselves out had a great time crashing in the wagon while we wheeled them through the woods. We ate lunch at Turnstile Deli then headed home for naps.

After nap Linda (Nana) took the boys to Monkey Joes. Micah has been on inflatables three times. Twice were at the Younglife end of year party and the other was Haley's 3rd birthday. In each of these situations Zach had to go down the slides with him and that was after a lot of coaxing. When we walked into monkey joe's he immediately got a look of excitement on his face. We started off slow in the 3 and under area so Micah and Connor could get accustomed to this new experience. Micah loved it right away and even kept coming up to Connor to make sure he knew what was going on. Connor took a little while longer to get used to it but once he learned how to 'work' the slide he was a happy camper.

Once it looked like Micah was used to his surroundings we got him to try some of the other inflatables. He ended up going in everyone except the huge slide and loved them all. He even climbed up the walls by himself using all the foot holds and handles. I don't know if I've ever been so proud of my cautious little boy. He was a big fan of the obstacle courses which was even more surprising because he couldn't see me or his Nana at all while he was in them.

A new inflatables place just opened near us in Covington and I'm thinking about having his 4th birthday party there now that I know he'd really enjoy himself!