Busy Weekend

What happened to the days of weekends passing filled with sleeping till noon, watching movies, and basically doing nothing? An almost 2 year old that is very active has transformed our lives from being lazy to finding any activity that he might consider fun for more than 10 minutes.

Our weekend started on Sunday, we headed to church for a (hopefully) inspirational message. Ethan started fussing as soon as we turned the corner to the street the church is on. He likes Sunday school but hates the part where we leave him there. After a tearful goodbye, he did great. Then, when we got home we went down for a 2 hour nap (yeah for Sunday school, it makes him exhausted!) After nap and some lunch, we headed down to a scarecrow festival in Old Colorado City with Grandma, Papa and Auntie. The scarecrows were ok...

...but the old train cars were better.

...and Auntie is the best

trees are cool too

After the scarecrow exhibit, it was just a walk around Old Colorado City basically, we went to Grandma and Papa's for dinner. I had to leave to get Michael from work, which is something Ethan usually enjoys but he was torn between going with me and playing with Papa in the sandbox, Papa won. He's so crazy at Grandma's when everyone's there, this is him using my belly as a surf board
With the fall starting and winter being just around the corner, I have been gathering ideas for fun indoor toddler activities, one of my friends suggested Focus on the Family. They have a play place for kids that is completely free. On Monday we went to check it out. It's awesome!!! We spent almost 2 hours there! I don' think these pictures do it justice (not just cause they're blurry) and I can't really describe it, but there are all different rooms with different activities.

Before heading downstairs there's a kid sized theater showing the cartoon movie that the whole thing is based on

This room was Ethan's favorite it's for kids aged birth-5 and there's a door so they can't scurry away

This is another movie theater, shaped like a cave, the murals had stars glowing and so did the ceiling

This is a room with dress up clothes so you can put on a play, when you're on stage you can watch yourself on tv. There's a train running along the ceiling, hand puppets and a library.

And last but not least, entering Narnia!