The day after Sean's graduation, daycare was closed for a teacher in-service so the teachers could change over from school-mode to camp-mode. Mommy took the kids out for a fancy breakfast of bagels and chocolate milk.
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| Clare was feeling much better after a quick visit to the doctor after Seany's graduation ceremony :-) |
After breakfast, we took Seanybear to his five-year well visit.
Poor Sean got two shots and he was NOT happy about it. Luckily, the prospect of a picnic perked him up a bit. We drove to Fairmount Park in Philadelphia to have a picnic lunch. The kids enjoyed eating their sandwiches and fruit outside, and taking pictures of course!
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| "Cheese!" |
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| "Take a picture of my ear!" |
After the picnic, we went to Smith Memorial Playground. This little nook of Fairmount Park has been a destination for Philadelphia-area families for over 100 years. Our first stop was the giant playhouse which was built specifically for kids five years old and under.
Inside the mansion was room after room of toys, toys, and more toys.
The basement of the playhouse housed a driving track with tricycles and riding toys, plus a real working stoplight:
After the kids were done playing inside, we went outside to the grounds:
Sean got a kick out of this giant, tangly spiderweb jungle gym with a trampoline in the middle!
Both kids loved this spinning, cone-shaped jungle gym thing - thankfully there was a school field trip with lots of eager young chaperones to spin this thing so that I could continue to act as Mom-arazzi:
After a good long time on the spinning cone, the kids ran over to this see-saw:
And the kids' number-one favorite feature of the whole playground was the giant wooden slide!
Sean preferred going down on his belly:
Clare liked going on her bottom but after a couple of turns, she tried going on her belly and loved it!
I got a couple of videos of the kids going down the slide:
On the way out, the kids fed this little elephant coins to thank the playground for a wonderful day :-)
