For all you autumn lovers wrapping up in thick sweaters, drinking hot beverages, and making soup...it's 86 degrees outside!!!! So hand the season back to us summer lovers! We've still got some scorchers ahead!
This weekend we decided to take advantage of the heat and head back to Storybook Land for a final summer treat. We had so much fun back in July, we thought who could pass-up a free weekend with glorious weather.
Not us!
It was bliss. I can't even really explain why this place is so cute except that it's just charming and Kip is the perfect age for it. It's not crowded, we never waited in line for more than 5 minutes, it's shady and enclosed and we felt comfortable letting Kip roam without fear of him peeling off into the street. It's not overstimulating and it's not a magnet attraction. It feels like a well kept secret and having it 2 hours outside of the city certainly helps.
We were hoping Kip would nap in the car on the way there but he didn't so we braced ourselves for some meltdowns. He had a few moments but was mostly super happy. We did all the rides we did the first time and found some others we had missed in July.
The entire place was decorated for fall and each kid got to pick a pumpkin and decorate it (included with admission). We got there around 11:30 and stayed until 3:30 and Dan, Mandy, and I all felt like it was a perfect toast to summer.
Kip zonked-out as soon as we got in the car and napped for a solid hour on the drive back. Since it was a late nap we swung-by Chick-fil-a and ate dinner at Mandy's apartment, gave Kip a bath there, changed him into pajamas and when we made it back to Brooklyn we just had to put Kip right to bed.
I personally can't wait to go back next summer.
On Sunday we headed to church. It was Kip's second week at Sunday School and I stayed with him the whole time. It's rough. He's not used to a classroom setting and so he wants nothing to do with singing, or story time, or a craft. He'll focus for snack, but otherwise he is all over the place. Thankfully, his behavior is on-par with all the other 2-year olds so we'll just wait for him to adjust to the novelty. I did his craft for him.
It was also the last weekend for some friends in the church leadership and Kip's only little girl pal. They are two-weeks apart in age and I'm sad they won't get to grow-up together. But, this is New York and by nature it is perpetually transient. Dan and I have gotten used to friends leaving and while it makes investing in deep relationships difficult, we both understand that's the way it is.
After church Kip napped in the car and then we headed to a friend's house to obsess over their matchbox car collection for two hours.
It was a jam-packed weekend!
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