The water park is called The Edge. Perhaps as in, spend four hours there with 12 children, and it will push you to the edge of insanity.
But that's what we did on Sunday, for a birthday party for AJ's friend Avery (fifth from the right in the pink and yellow life jacket.) Except for an hour when we were eating pizza and cake, and opening gifts, we were in the water pretty much non-stop.
The good news is, the water was relatively warm, which meant Sydney suddenly overcame her fear of water. This picture is fairly misleading. About the only time my little mermaid was willing to get out of the water was when I asked her to sit on the step so that I could take her picture. Otherwise, I was holding her while she held the ball and kicked around.
AJ, meanwhile, had a blast doing "battle" with Hanna's and Avery's dads.
Overall, I was pretty happy with how the afternoon went. It started out rather choppy with neither of the kids wanting to get into the water. AJ suggested we just sit in the hot tub, (That's my boy!) while Sydney was too scared to even put on her swimsuit.
And why was she frightened? Because for some insane reason, the water park's designers thought it would be a cool feature to include a giant bucket of water two stories up that tips over and drenches the kids below. Bigger kids seem to find this cool. Little kids are terrified of it. So where did they put it? Directly over the little kids' play area. What were they thinking?
Sydney saw the bucket dump shortly after we walked in and froze in place. She refused to go in the wading area out of fear. I had to shield her every time we walked by it. That meant there was no wading for her. She would only "swim" with the bigger kids, which meant Mommy had to hold her. Talk about a total body workout!
But that's what we did on Sunday, for a birthday party for AJ's friend Avery (fifth from the right in the pink and yellow life jacket.) Except for an hour when we were eating pizza and cake, and opening gifts, we were in the water pretty much non-stop.
The good news is, the water was relatively warm, which meant Sydney suddenly overcame her fear of water. This picture is fairly misleading. About the only time my little mermaid was willing to get out of the water was when I asked her to sit on the step so that I could take her picture. Otherwise, I was holding her while she held the ball and kicked around.AJ, meanwhile, had a blast doing "battle" with Hanna's and Avery's dads.
Overall, I was pretty happy with how the afternoon went. It started out rather choppy with neither of the kids wanting to get into the water. AJ suggested we just sit in the hot tub, (That's my boy!) while Sydney was too scared to even put on her swimsuit.And why was she frightened? Because for some insane reason, the water park's designers thought it would be a cool feature to include a giant bucket of water two stories up that tips over and drenches the kids below. Bigger kids seem to find this cool. Little kids are terrified of it. So where did they put it? Directly over the little kids' play area. What were they thinking?
Sydney saw the bucket dump shortly after we walked in and froze in place. She refused to go in the wading area out of fear. I had to shield her every time we walked by it. That meant there was no wading for her. She would only "swim" with the bigger kids, which meant Mommy had to hold her. Talk about a total body workout!
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