Monsoon season arrived this April weekend, and so did our favorite pair of little people. Zachy had his sensory gym session on Saturday morning (it went well) and after, it was off to the next best thing to Disney - Daddy's house! We had a nice lunch of chicken and rice then decided to take advantage of the relatively benign weather on Saturday, knowing that Sunday would be a wash-out. We went off to the park on Colonial, which is where we go when it's too windy (like this day) to go to the big park on Shore Road.
The swings were first on our agenda - they are always first on Zachy's agenda - and 4 out of five dentists surveyed said that swinging is good for the soul. Zach has always loved the swings, even as a tiny little baby at Carol Park, and he loves them still. Miranda has a significantly lower swinging threshold and opted to go play on the jungle gym and slide after about 15 minutes of swing time.
Miranda did laps up the jungle gym and down the slide, over and over, pausing every so often to observe other children. When she does this it is almost trance-like and she gets this very concerned look on her face - deep concentration I suspect - then it passes just as suddenly as it started and she is off and running again. Zach stayed in the swing clutching a toy bus or two, having a fine time.
Eventually both children decided that it was time to engage in the new favorite park activity - frolicking on the soccer/football field. We were lucky on this day, in that there was not much organized (big kids) activity going on, so we had a nice big space to run around on, without having to worry about being run over by wide receivers or midfielders.
We ran around playing chase and climbing in and around the goalie's net for almost an hour. The monkeys showed no sign of tiring, but Daddy had had it after an hour of chasing wee-folk in circles.
We took a long walk around the neighborhood and picked up some supplies, then headed home for the evening. The monkeys still had a little oomph left, which was used up playing chase in the courtyard in front of Daddy's house. We eventually made it indoors and had bath time and a nice dinner, but before Daddy could even put on our Chicka-chicka video, both monkeys had collapsed - Zach went out at 7pm and Miranda by 7:30,
leaving Daddy free to watch a little Scifi while wondering if they would sleep through the night - one out of two ain't bad.Zachy slept until 2:30am and was up (I mean really up) for quite some time. He and Daddy played quietly in bed and he was pretty good about not waking up his sister. By about 5am our little guy was getting droopy again and he went back to sleep (along with Daddy) until we all got up at 7:30 or so. By this time the
April monsoons had begun in earnest (8 and a half inches of rain in Central Park - the most in over 100 years) so our usual Sunday morning walk was out of the question. We watched a little Noggin and hung out in our PJs. Eventually, mommy came to collect the little ones at about 12:30. We said, "rain rain go away - we'll be back at Daddy's house on Saturday." That's all for now, stay tuned for lots more Monkeyshines. (Note: please visit Easter Bunny Monkeyshines for picture updates - enjoy!)
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