Parkathon

If you don’t give your kids something to do, they will find something to do and it will annoy you. I realize that Alex is always better if we leave the house by 9:30 am and the house stays clean if we stay out of it. So in order to stay sane while I was pregnant we started this thing I call “Parkathon”. We get up in the morning, get dressed, pack a whole lot of food and drinks and go to the parks. We became regulars at these parks, going around the same time. We’d meet Mom’s and kids, make some friends. It’s awesome. I highly recommend Parkathon to anyone with small kids. We go to a park at 10am where the day care kids play. We play, get bored, eat something, get in the car, change diapers and go to the next park. The next park has a bathroom and a whole bunch of stay at home moms with kids. We play, get bored, eat something, feed half the kids there, and go to the next park. We stop at McDonalds (I know it’s bad) to get a happy meal and we go to the next park. This park has the older kids with the stay at home moms (you can learn a lot from them). We eat the happy meal, play, usually have some sort of incident, and then head off to the final park. This park has a bathroom and horses! We change diapers, eat a snack, visit horses, play, and this is usually around the time that Alex will lay down in the middle of the play ground, drooling, panting, red faced, and begging to go home and take a nap. I’m usually able to get him to sleep for 3 hours while I have some “me time”.