The fearless one

This is a play area at the local Burger King and it's designed for older kids, 4 years old and up. As you can see, Thing 2 is not afraid of it. Just as she wasn't afraid to slide down a steep inflatable play area a few weeks ago. She was a little afraid when she got to the top, but she conquered her fear by turning around, belly on the slide, feet feet first...and she had fun!Thing 2 and Curious George had lots of fun sliding down in different positions.

Thing 1 is a bit more cautious lately. She climbed up to the see through area, and then she climbed back down. The steps are little too far apart for her.

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first time at the same place, what are the odds?

We went to Chick-Fil-A today for dinner. After we've all eaten, we let the girls play in the play area. This is their first time in a play area at 19 months old. They climbed up, but when reached the opening to the slide, Thing 1 was quite unsure. She hung around and tried to figure things out, but she didn't go for it, all the while getting pressured to go by Curious George. The internal conflict was very apparent and amusing. Thing 2 climbed up as well, but it was clear she wasn't planning on even trying.

This brought back memory of the first time we brought Curious George there for the first time. I couldn't think of how old he was until I got home and searched my old blog. It turns out that Curious George's first play area experience was at 19 months old as well, in the same exact fast food place. How awesome is that! He was a daredevil at that age and went all the way up by himself, except he didn't come down. After much calling and much worrying, I had to climb up in the darn thing and extract the little monkey. Boy, I'm glad I didn't have to do that today! However, Daddy did have to climb up an get both Thing 1 and Thing 2 at least 2 times each.

climbing little monkeys

The girls are becoming quite the little monkeys lately, especially Thing 2. She climbs on the anything she can prop her leg on. Unfortunately, neither one has yet mastered the concept of edges so there are a lot of falling going on. I have this sneaking feeling that one of these days the bumps would be a bad one, but I sure hope I'm wrong.

Thing 2 climbs on the rocking lazy boy and and climbs on the back, while Thing 1 watches on. Thing 1 is probably taking notes on the technique.
By the way, Thing 2 now has 2 extra teeth on the bottom for a total of 8 teeth.

Thing 2 reaches for Daddy as he takes the picture. This little one sure is having fun climbing on everything.

Thing 1 likes to limb too, but she's not climbing everything she sees....yet.
(She has 1 more teeth coming out the bottom and one more getting ready to peak through. It's been bothering her these past couple of days that she's not been pigging out like she used to.)



You think we're exaggerating about calling Thing 2 a monkey?

learning to climb down and making mischief

It's amazing how fast they learn to climb down the right way when you let them experience how it feels to fall down.



This bookshelf seems to be a hot spot. They like going there just to pull all the books down.