So dad found this to be hilarious. He says I am a “chip off the old block” whatever that means. In this pose we explore the finer points of manhood: remote control in hand watching TV, having a drink, and just chilling with my hand in my pants. Yes, dad says I will be juuuuust fine, juuuuust fine.
The neighbors down the street have a great dog named Bella. I LOVE Bella. Bella loves anyone who pets her through the fence. While this is certainly not the first day I have ran down the street to pet “doggy” this time we had a camera. I could literally do this for hours. Luckily, so could Bella.
[album: http://www.cooperhampton.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/cooperAlbums/bella_3_8/]Every once and a while these posts make it. We essentially did nothing during the day but, we had the camera. Lessons learned today: I love being in the car OUT of my car seat and two, virtually anything mom or dad does (in this case washing the dog) involving water, I am THERE!
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Ok so I didn’t have any wine but not for lack of effort believe you me. It was fun to run around though. Surprisingly, on a Sunday, there are quite a few other kids there too running around. Since this is right down the street from my house, this happens to work out well for me. This place really is great though. Mini-pizzas, room to run, connected to the market, and mom and dad could sit there for hours.
So I suppose you know you rule the roost when parents are faced with what to do for the day and choose IKEA even though they need nothing and are planning on buying nothing. (sidebar: they actually ended up buying nothing if you can believe it). I ran and climbed EVERYTHING. Hey now that I am a Rebounders grad, I CAN climb everything. It was game on in the kids section of course. Sweedish meatballs and lingenberry everything for lunch (seriously a family of 3 ate lunch there for $12) and finally a stroll through the shelves. All in all a good day. Tired me right out too so it was directly to bed.
[album: http://www.cooperhampton.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/cooperAlbums/ikea_3_6/]By this point it is a well established fact that anything that makes noise, flashes, plays music, or in any way makes anything happen is pretty much like catnip to me. Dad had set up a photo shoot at the house and as it turns out the light meter makes the flashes go off. So guess what I did? Yup, fired the flashes a zillion times and cracked up the whole time. Dad managed to fire off a few of frames at the same time.
[album: http://www.cooperhampton.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/cooperAlbums/lightsCamera/]So I found a new favorite place. It is a wonderous place, filled with things to climb on, things to knock over, things to eat, shelves to hide under, tents to crawl in, slides to climb, and yes, even cartoon characters on boxes of food. I think it confuses adults too because I overheard mom and dad saying we were there for what seemed to be forever. Really though, we were only there for like an hour. Odd.
So we have been looking for a kid friendly Sunday place to hang out. Think we found it. The Rec Room. While it is not an every day event this place has a pool room (fun to run at full speed in), two motorcycle games to ride on (uh, need I say more), and plenty of bar patrons watching sports for me to wave to and charm the heck out of. All in all, this place rocks.
