Yesterday we met up with Sarah and Mary Grace at the splash pad. Sarah's friend Melora drove up from Chattanooga for the day with her daughter Shelby and met us there. It was a little more crowded yesterday and I had some trouble keeping track of Carter when he was running all over. I'd look down to make sure Rylan was okay and not see Carter anywhere when I looked up. He eventually slowed down and I didn't have as much trouble.
We got there before Sarah and Melora and while I was getting us all set up, a sheriff's helicopter landed in the park. All the boys at the splash pad completely forgot about the water and were mesmerized by the helicopter (including mine!).
Carter loved the splash pad again and ran through everything!
Filling up buckets with water is so much fun!
We stayed a little over an hour. Rylan got fussy after about 30 minutes and I had to hold him. Before that I was able to run around with Carter some and check on Rylan every few minutes.
Sarah got this picture of Carter and me before Rylan woke up ...
After the splash pad we all headed over to Sarah's house for lunch and some more playtime. I'm still figuring out how to nurse, change diapers, feed Carter lunch, eat myself, hold Rylan when he's fussing, play with Carter, and not let Carter cause too much trouble. So far I've been managing to not get too frazzled!
However, this is what happens when we play with girls and I'm paying more attention to Rylan than to Carter ...
Carter had a lot of fun playing with Mary Grace's dress up stuff!
We tried to get a picture of all 4 kids and this is the best we could do ...
Today we made plans to go to Pump It Up (a warehouse with inflatables) with Sarah and Mary Grace and then head over to their house again for lunch and play time outside.
Target is starting their summer toy clearance and Sarah and I have been trying to stop by most days to catch the day they mark all the sale stuff to 75% off. All the good stuff is gone within a few hours so if you miss the day they do the markdowns, you're out of luck.
I rushed us out of the house early so we could run into Target quickly before meeting up with Sarah to see if the sale had started. My plan was to then nurse Rylan in the car in the parking lot while feeding Carter a snack and then head over to Pump It Up. After running into Target and seeing the sale hadn't started yet, I got to feeding everyone. Then I looked at the clock and realized I was running an hour early! I am apparently more sleep deprived than I realized!
After going back into Target to kill some time (always easy to do in Target) and nursing Rylan again so he wouldn't get fussy at the inflatables place, we were off.
Carter was so excited as soon as we walked into the inflatables area. He wasn't quite sure what to do, but did climb up on this giant thing right away and start bouncing around ...
This place had 4 inflatables. One was just a bouncing house, one was just a slide, and the other two were more of an obstacle course with a slide at the end. Carter was just a bit too small to do anything except for the bounce house on his own. Luckily Rylan slept most of the time that we were there so I could go with Carter and help him up the climbing sections and just check on Rylan every few minutes.
Going down the slide at the end of one of the obstacle course inflatables ...
In the bounce house ...
Notice the tongue always sticking out ...
Carter was super brave at first and wanted to try everything. But after having tried everything once, he was over it for a little bit. I think he was tired. I've forced him to only have an afternoon nap for three days straight and I think he was just worn out.
Eventually though Carter became obsessed with the giant slide. He needed help getting up the ladder steps though so Sarah or I had to take him up every time. Here are Mary Grace and Carter going down the slide together ...
We stayed about an hour and everyone (including Sarah and me, but maybe not Rylan) were exhausted. I think Mary Grace and Carter had a blast though!
After Pump It Up, we all went to Sarah's house. We had lunch and then played outside for a couple of hours until a storm came in. Rylan slept for most of our time out there in his bouncer with the fan blowing on him (it was HOT!) so Sarah and I got to relax a little bit.
Mary Grace and Carter had fun burning off their remaining energy. Carter spent a lot of the afternoon on his absolute favorite toy at Sarah's house ...
I'm not sure why he is so obsessed with this thing, but he pulls it out right away and goes back to it every 10 minutes or so.
We've had so much fun hanging out with Sarah and Mary Grace this week. It's made the first week on my own with the two boys so much easier! We're so sad that they are moving up to Lexington and this was our last week to hang out. We're going to miss you guys so much!
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