Last Monday of 2009 Summer...

Well...for my kids anyway before they start back to school. Today is their last Monday before the 2009-2010 school year. This morning I took all 3 to Brandi Fenton for a craftdate/splashdate event. This was our second time ever at the splashpark and the kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I even got pictures this time!

As soon as we got out of the car, they all RAN across the soccer field to the ramada closest to the splashpark. I kind of hung back and walked but it was so neat to see their joy and excitement. Interesting observation was watching Taylor...she took off like a little rocket across the field and when she got to the edge she noticed that there was a huge muddy area and stopped. Of course being the pessimist, I was thinking that she wouldn't see it and would run right through the mud and end up covered! But I was SO wrong. She stopped at the edge and negotiated and navigated her way around the puddle walking into the ramada clean and dry! The boys kind of followed suit and immediately they left their towels on the tables and went into the splashpad. Taylor wanted to do the craft first and then ran inside to play.

Anthony and Taylor fight over who will sit on the sprayers that shoot water straight up into the air.

Jackson is such a hambone! Little does he know that he's standing on a sprayer that'll shoot water up into the air...and into his swimsuit.

I got the three kids to stop just long enough under the spraying arches to capture this picture. It was very difficult considering how much they move around! And surprisingly, the water was actually cold on a hot muggy day like today was.

Hee hee, yes Water CAN spray upwards! Jackson thought this was one of the neatest things to see. The first time we played, these sprayers weren't working and neither were the buckets. Jackson spent a lot of time trying to figure out the timing of when the water was going to spray upwards as well as he asked me a LOT of questions about how the sprayers worked. Geez, kid...I don't know...pipes and water pressure?

After cooling off in the splashpad, the kids toweled off and headed towards the playground equipment. Taylor really wanted to do EVERYTHING her brothers did such as climbing the rock wall.

But most of all, she wanted to slide down the slides. Fortunately, her bottom was still wet and this slide was still under the playground cover so it didn't "burn" as much going down as the other playground slides did.