Thursday, June 24, 2010

June 11: Special Day at the Center Point Mall Play Area

For our first "Special Day" we were going to visit the viewing area of the Ford International Airport (off Kraft Avenue north of 52nd Street). It's a great spot to watch aircrafts take off and land as well as let the kids run around on the grassy hill. We've done this before, usually with a picnic lunch and friends, and the boys really enjoyed it, but the threat of rain made me reconsider. We ended up going to the Center Point Mall play area with some friends from church.

We arrived at the mall in a downpour. Good decision to avoid the airport! This play area is usually quiet, but I think the mix of rain with the end of the school year prompted many parents to head to the mall with the kids. It was BUSY! The boys had been there before and love running, climbing, sliding, and jumping around the play area. The extra number of kids didn't seem to bother them. There are other malls in the area that offer play areas, but I like this one because it's fairly easy to keep an eye on the kids as they run around...no big obstacles to block my view of them. Which means that when Tysen decided to play the part of the bully by sitting at the top of the slide and yelling, "No! No!" to anyone who tried climbing the stairs to use the slide, I could take care of it immediately. Since the kids were listening to him, I just know he's going to be a great leader someday...we just have to work on those leadership skills.

The difficult thing about Special Days is they have to come to an end at some point, but we will return again, for sure.

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