July family outing: the Splash Pad

Last Saturday, we ate breakfast and packed the car on our way to the BREC splash pad on the other side of town. On the way to the car, we found a baby Gecko - and Eden crawled under the car to grab it just to get a kiss.

When we got there, Lydia did not want much to do with the water - it took her about half an hour to warm up to it.

Once she did, it was hard to get her out of it.

Eden pretended to be a puppy who needed a bath.

Lydia had lots of fun filling up various containers and dumping them out ... over and over and over and ...

And we had fun watching them do all sorts of cute things ... like sit in their matching chairs, courtesy of Nona and Big Daddy.

p.s. While most of the day was tantrum free, we did have a major meltdown as we tried to leave the park. It was our fault for asking Eden, "Do you need to potty?" Of course she said "no" but then we decided it was a good idea to at least try.  At one point she yelled at Ashley completely red-faced "I've told you a hundred times I don't need to go!" Wow! She did end up going, and we did make it home without killing each other. Amazingly (even though Ashley stood outside of the car with a screaming Eden for over 10 minutes) Ashley never lost her cool - such an amazing inspiration to me.