So, last Thursday Shane had like the best day in the history of forever.

It started out with our normal Thursday routine of meeting up for our playgroup. {Which we found through Emily at Family & Life in Las Vegas- whose son Squish is pictured below, right with Shane, left.} Usually it’s at someone’s house but this week we met up at a place called Run Plus Fun. It’s a huge indoor playground with the biggest slides I’ve ever seen, a slide that lands in a ball pit, paintings of dinosaurs & a couple of tables with puzzles, cars, and other toys. &Kiddos can just go nuts. Which is exactly what Shane did.

There’s a toddler section but he skipped it. He wanted to climb and so I followed him all over the structure and we went on the slide at least fifteen times. He found a little rocking-horse type toy that was an elephant &he spent like half the time on that.

He did get a pretty severe bump- one of the other boys from playgroup was slamming the {toddler height} door shut as Shane was walking up to it from the back- and POW! right on the forehead. He cried for a few but then quickly remembered he was at the coolest place ever, and forgot all about it. As you can see from the pictures, though- it left quite a mark. Ouch.

After he got bored of the slide {somehow}, we decided to leave. In the same parking lot though, I saw a sign for a toy shop. Little did I know it was THE toy shop that I’ve wanted to take him to for months!!! It’s called Kettlemuck’s and it’s literally a mom-and-pop FAO Schwartz. It’s amazing- they carry toys that aren’t “mainstream” and nothing that uses batteries- lots of animals, science kits, etc. Shane was fascinated by the talking animatronic tree- I’m thinking it’s time we took him to the Rainforest Cafe!

The other super cool thing about the place is the giant sandbox in the middle of it- they have sand made out of recycled milk cartons &you can pay $6 to go in and dig and keep any treasures you find. They had hidden a bunch of little animals & toys so Shane got a couple of cute little animals. Shane didn’t care much about the digging but he LOVED the hand-painted mural of all different animal scenes that was on the wall inside the sand area- he walked in a circle doing each animal sound as he passed them. I was so proud.

Anyway as I prepared us for the 45 minute drive home I realized it was lunch time & so we went through the McDonald’s drive thru {not exactly healthy, but I didn’t bring him a lunch & he was hungry.} and he fell asleep not five minutes later, still holding a chicken nugget.

Needless to say, he took a nice, long nap after all of that excitement. I know he won’t remember that day when he’s a grown up- or even in a couple of years- but I will.

I will remember the smile on his face when I told him he could go play with whatever he wanted at the playground place. I’ll remember him pointing out each animal &imitating it, and having a conversation with a talking tree. &I’ll remember unstrapping him from his carseat and carrying him, asleep, into the house to lay next to me for two hours while he dreamed of all we had just done.

It’s the days like that that make life amazing.