Wednesday, March 16, 2011

De Balloon and the hairdresser

This morning was playgroup. We went to a indoor playground called De Balloon in the Netherlands. It actually wasn't too far from where we live, only about 25 minutes. Well...when you don't take a detour. I incorrectly entered the address into the GPS. I was on the highway when Mr.GPS said I arrived at my destination. Umm...I don't think so! Luckily I was only about 5 minutes away from the real destination.
It was a great place. There was a big playground thing that was all padded, had fun stairs, platforms, slides, balls, all sort of thing. At first Jake wasn't too sure, he fell asleep in the car, and it took him a few minutes to get adjusted to everything. There was a little toddler area, but it wasn't long before all the kids were climbing on the big toys!
The first time Jake went down this slide, he went down first. There was about a four feet platform...well, Jake just flew down the slide, flew across the four feet, then went out of sight! I swear, my heart stopped. But it was just a little more than a foot drop, and everything is padded, so he was fine! It didn't stop him from going down the slide again multiple times.
Oh, and the second time, I went down first, and I thought Jake wasn't going to follow me! It took a lot of prompting!
He absolutely loved the ball pit. He would jump in the balls, and he loves when I covered him up. He probably played for at least a half an hour here.


These were technically stairs. But the kids were climbing up, then sliding down them.

We had lunch at the venue, they had nuggets and fries, then we Jake had a haircut. He was in pretty desperate need to cut his hair. It was his second hair cut. I didn't bother with the cape to cover him, he hates it, I just brought a change of clothes since I knew his other clothes would be covered in hair.
He did freak out a little bit when the hairdresser was getting his hair wet and was just starting. But a box of raisins and a couple of songs later, he was content to just sit in the chair and smile to himself in the mirror. I think he looks so handsome now with his hair nice and short!




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