The Great Escape

Fearing the worst, I made an appointment to have Lexi's ears checked with the doctor on call today. Luckily, there is no ear infection, but unfortunately there is fluid in her ears. Which, based on past history with her, will most likely turn into an ear infection over the next few days.

Today we went to a party for one of the kids in Jackson's Preschool class. He was in the same class with him in Toddlers and often tells us stories of what he did at school with Maxwell. The party was at The Great Escape which is an indoor playscape/arcade type of place. It is in our town, although I had never been before.

It took a little while for the kids to "warm up" and be comfortable enough to stop clinging to either Luis or I, but once they got going it was hard to get them to stop! After quickly eating some pizza and cake, all the kids headed out to the playscape area. It was pretty cool, with lots of slides/tunnels, ladders, ramps, and various other climbing apparatus. Lots of ball pits as well, which I asked the boys to avoid if possible - they make me nervous (like, how often do they get sanitized, etc.). Even Lexi had fun climbing up a mat ramp and sliding town a tunnel slide. After running around for a while, the kids moved over to the "arcade" area. They had lots of arcade-type games that were age-appropriate and gave out tickets at the end. By 7, Lexi was ready for bed, so we headed home, but not before stopping at the "gadgets" counter to turn in all our tickets for some cheap toys. Great. Just what we need. More cheap toys in the house, like we aren't already overrun with toys. Sigh. The kids had fun picking out their treasures, though.