Thursday, July 16, 2009

Play Date with Tyler

One of my former co-workers, Lori, and I have been trying to get our boys together for a play date for a while now. Our schedules finally worked out for our first play date with her and her son, Tyler, who is a couple months younger than Andrew. We met up at the Houston Aquarium this morning as they have never been there before.

The train wasn't going yet so we decided to ride the carousel first. It was Tyler's first time on the carousel; and he did pretty good. He wasn't thrilled with it and hung onto his mom for dear life, but he stayed on and didn't cry--unlike my son who sat nicely on the seahorse for like two minutes and then wanted off. So, we sat on one of the seats they had; and he did just fine on that.

Next, we headed indoors to check out the animals. Both boys enjoyed the fish and all the other animals. Andrew totally remembered the stingray tank and wanted to touch the water over and over again. He didn't want to leave the tank. Tyler and Andrew really seemed to like the white tiger quite a bit. Andrew kept saying "roar" the whole time we were looking at the tiger (there was only one out this time).

Then, we went back outdoors to ride the train. This time, Andrew didn't get scared at all when we were underneath the shark tank. Afterwards, we let the boys play in the jumping water fountains. Andrew wasn't scared of them this time either. He didn't even waste a moment before going to play with them. He even stuck his face into the water and a few times, he drank the water. I wasn't too thrilled about that, but whatever, I figured that boys will be boys. I know I have to choose my battles; and I was just happy that he was playing in the water so enthusiastically.

By then, it was lunch time so we headed to the restaurant. Both Tyler and Andrew did so well eating and sitting nicely in their high chairs. After we ate, I was going to take Andrew on the train again since he was asking for it, but the line was too long. So, we headed home so the boys could take their naps. Sure enough, Andrew fell asleep just as we pulled up to the house. He must have been wiped out because he took over a two hour nap!

We had a great time with Lorie and Tyler and look forward to our next play date! 





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