The first party was for a precious little girl who was turning 3, at a park close to our house. There has been like 100 days over 100 this year so we were SO happy when the morning turned out to be overcast and not miserably hot. Gavin doesn't nap very well at school and actually doesn't even take a morning nap anymore. Usually though, he will still take one on Saturdays but of course this Saturday he decided he would rather scream. So we were not holding out much hope for a good attitude but he was cordial but didn't interact with all the kids very much, he was pretty much only interested in swinging and eating birthday cake.
Funny face
This boy LOVES to swing!
Pretty sure this is as close to the birthday girl as he got
So he completely wore himself out between the screaming, swinging and playing on the playground and as soon as we got in the car he fell asleep. We only had an hour before our next birthday party and one lesson we have definitely learned is that once that boy goes to sleep DO NOT WAKE HIM UP!!! He will almost never go back to sleep and you will dearly pay for it. So we decided to just go into town and go through a drive-thru for lunch and let him nap peacefully in his car seat.
So he got about a 45 minute nap and was good and rested for the next birthday party which was great because he had so much fun and needed all the energy he could muster. This party was at the YMCA gymnastics building and they let all the kids run wild and play on all the equipment. It was perfect and even the adults had fun!
They had this super long trampoline that the kids could jump down, Gavin hasn't figured jumping out yet, but had fun stumbling down it.
I think he was considering implementing some of those "Toddler Property Rules". He LOVED playing with these balls! He loves playing with balls period, but these were ex
tra special. I couldn't believe he didn't pitch a fit when we had to put them down to go eat cake. He must have seen the cake and been momentarily distracted.
They also had this really great foam pit, that you could slide into, jump into from a platform, or swing into from a rope swing! Some of the adults decided that this would be a great place to have an adult birthday party :-).
Gavin thought the foam pit was alright, but he was soon out and back to chasing the balls. Clay figured out that he could get Gavin to do other stuff by using the ball as bait. Not sure what this says about our parenting skills or about Gavin, but I choose to ignore it.
Gavin loves to climb things at home and I thought what better place to climb than here where they have soft squishy floors. But alas he didn't want to so we had to use the ball as bait once again.
Success at last!!
Poor little thing, so tired!
He actually laid here for a while, or at least it was awhile for him. This boy does not lay down unless he is asleep.
So as you can tell he had a BIG time and was properly worn out and ready for his nice, long afternoon nap when we got home!
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