Gym America

Well, I know it's been a month or more since I've blogged. It's been a vey crazy month. I hurt my back about 3 weeks ago. I couldn't even stand up the next morning I was in so much pain. George had to carry me to the car to go to the ER. They gave me the strongest pain meds they had and I was still unable to walk out. All I could do for days was lay on a heating pad. I was so blessed to have some wonderful people in my life that helped me out with the kids and meals and shopping...thanks so much everyone! So my back is finally doing bettter and life is slowly getting back to normal. I have many posts to catch on but I'll start with this one. There are several fun indoor play places in Ann Arbor. Emily loves going to Gym America, which has open gym time for preschoolers on Mondays and Fridays. These are pictures from our last visit there. Elijah enjoyed himself as well!

Her favorite "event" is the long trampeline. She must have jumped across it close to a hundred times. She made great strides in learning how to wait in a line this time.

Elijah enjoyed the open space and "crawling manipulatives."

Peek-a-boo!

Next time we need to work on arm stregnth. ;)

The gym is super close to Melinda's house, so we headed over there for lunch afterwards.

Emily had a blast making cookies with Melinda.

After the cookies were made, Emily decided to help wash dishes. That had to be the cleanest spoon Melinda's ever had - and sorry about the water bill, Mr. Mike! It sure did keep a busy preschooler occupied for a long time though!

Living it up in the North

We finally had enough snow recently to get out and do some real sledding, so we went to a nearby park that had a perfect size hill. Emily was so excited to give it a try but I was afraid she'd try it once and be too scared to get back on. Quite the opposite. She went down a small hill with her daddy the first time and got up saying "Again, again, again!" Elijah also loved his "toddler tobaggan" (who knew they had such things?). We pulled him around and whenever we stopped, he'd rock back and forth to try to move himself.

Emily could not wait to make a real snow angel

She thought it was great fun to slide down on her stomach and even convinced her daddy to slide down with her

they couldn't leave the park without trying out the playground equipment as well

Ah, time for a rest...

Well, the temps are in the 30's this week and there's water dripping over our doorstep continuously, so i'm guessing our 5 or 6 inches of snow won't be around much longer. They say it's been a strange winter for Michigan. We haven't seen the snow we were expecting to, didn't even have a white Christmas, but hopefully we'll get another good snow to enjoy before the winter's over. I can handle the subzero windchills if there's a blanket of white everywhere!