Playground Play

This past Saturday Landon and I attended our Playgroup session. We arrived rather late; as I had no plans on attending since I was kind of tired. But Landon had other plans with that thought, he had woke up early around 7:30ish and showed no intentions on going back to sleep--so we got up, got dressed and headed on out.

Upon our arrival we walked into a full class--with other regular families along with a few news ones were there. We started out inside; some of the kids were walking/crawling/running on the mats while others were playing with toys or in Landon's case wrapped around their mothers leg as if they were in a room full of strangers.

Prepping for the BIG slide...

The alarm sounded which was indication of moving outside, as we got ready and headed out towards the play area Landon finally lets me loose. He starts to walk out ahead of me like he was patiently waiting to go outdoors all along. He was so eager and excited about walking down the stairs, so excited he was skipping steps so I just picked him up. Once we got down he walked away from me and to my surprise for the first time walked towards the play area. I followed behind him to assist as he lead to the sliding board and up the steps. And of course I was camera ready!!

Look at Me, Mommy!!

While it's normal for a 35 month old toddler to initiate playground play, this is new for my 35 month old boy. As always my way of not causing distraction to him is trying to remain calm as much as possible, but my inside I'm roaring loud and my heart is so over-joyed with proudness. And seems I wasn't the only one proud of him for initiating play on the playground today, one of the playgroup attendants came over and assisted Landon as well with the steps and the slide and boy did he enjoy; eventually he wanted to stop and he did a great job with letting us both know. Next, we prepared to end our session and get ready for story time and our "good-bye" song, and while sitting there I 
couldn't do nothing but hold onto that huge smile inside my heart--well right until Landon started his 
fall out tantrum and pulls me all up {if you've seen this, I'm sure you can picture it right now}... And of course at that point I'm worked up and ready to go!!

In all we had a Awesome & Productive morning at Playgroup!

Check out my Crawling Caterpillar...

And while all that happened on Saturday, look what he did at school on Monday!! So grateful for the teachers and therapists who capture my unattended moments!! What would I do without them? Thanks Ms. Asia!!! 

Up...up...and away

Left leg go... 

Right leg go....