After the storms of biblical proportion came through last night – seriously, there was baseball sized hail in the area – and the drop of about 20 degrees in temperature overnight, any thoughts of playing outdoors today were quickly forgotten.
So, we had to rely on one of the indoor playgrounds in town. And since this mama loves ice cream, my friend and I took the toddlers to the Graeter’s factory. Graeter’s is a wonderful local ice cream maker, and their factory store has a really cool dessert themed play area. The play area is completely enclosed, so escaping is difficult, unlike the mall play area. Which means this mom can rest and eat ice creame in peace without chasing Cordy back into the play area.
My friend’s 2 year old son ran around introducing himself to everyone in the room. “I Spidemah! I Spidemah! I Petah Pahkah!” He wouldn’t stop until someone would finally acknowledge, “Oh, you’re Spiderman!”
My less-social child, however, preferred to lavish all of her attention on the red balls in the room. She carried them around, rolled them down the slide, hugged them, and generally kept to herself.
The photos of the day:
Uh, mom, you’re blocking the slide.
Meet my lovely red friends.
I Spidemah!
She’s so strong!
I have no idea what she’s thinking here.
that looks WAY fun. Is that the Graeter’s on Bethel?
LOVE THE GRAETER’S FACTORY!
An enclosed play area AND ice cream? I’m so jealous.
I’ll take your daughter and her big red balls over Spidermah any day!
ice cream and a place to play with no escape route? We’d be there every rainy, snowy, kinda cold day. A few sunny ones too, i’m thinking.
holy, she’s cute!
You all seem to have the best play areas around there. We don’t have anything like that around here. The closest we have is McDonalds…eww the germs on that playground freak me out!
That is exactly what I need right now. Graeters. Mmmmm.
Okay. The last one? I’m dying.
I wondered if you got hit with the hail.
So cute! I especially like the pix with the balls. The last one – visions of things to come when puberty hits? ha ha ha!
And – OMG, your pregnant?! Congratulations! Hooray! I had a similar situation with the fatigue. I didn’t remember being so tired the first time around but Slipshod assures me that I was. Of course, the first time I didn’t have a toddler to chase around all day long every single day.
In that last adorable photo, maybe she’s holding up some prostetic boobs. You know, in honor of breast cancer awareness month and all.
She’s so cute!
That last picture cracked me up. I hope she’s not considering plastic surgery this young. Don’t do it, Cordy! It’s not worth it.
heh heh heh, big red balls, heh heh.
I have a cousin who lives in Ohio, and for our last family reunion, she brought six pints of Graeter’s packed in dry ice. That is the best damn ice cream I had ever had!
That last picture actually made. me. snort.
We have those pants! They finally fit the girl this year.
LOL. you should’ve taught her to say “I’m Mary Jane.” LOL. But seriously she looks so cute!
That place looks ROCKIN!
That sounds like a lot of fun. I wish we had something like that around here.
OMG that sounds *awesome*. Any playground that has no exit is fabulous in my book, and when you add ice cream, you just made me want to get in the van and GO THERE NOW.
Oh, icecream and an indoor playspace.
Really, is there a more perfect place on earth?