Let Loose on Chipmunks

Ashton and I have been very lucky lately to be able to have regular play dates with Laela and Gracie! So today for our play date we decided to hit the slides, cars and bouncy castle of CHIPMUNKS! Thank goodness I brought Allie with me to help, because taking 3 toddlers to an adventure playground is pretty intense! They all wanted to play on something different at ALL times! But it was A LOT of fun. . . especially going on the new zoom slide and playing in their new ball bit.

This was our second time down the slide and at the top Ashton pushed me away and said "No, I do it. My turn." Little Dare Devil! And as you can see I'm having just as much fun as the children here!

The new ball pit goes up 3 levels where the children can find these air guns to load the balls into and fire them across the pit. It was great to see how quickly Ashton mastered the whole technique of using them. He loved it!

LOVE THESE KIDS!

Its a hard life being a 1 year old!

I love going to Chipmunks with Ashton... well any playground at that! Its such great for his gross motor development as he has to crawl around everywhere, climb up and down ladders, balance, develop confidence to do things on his own! And he gets to watch other children do things that he may not know how to do yet! Plus we get out of the house!!!

Pillow Pit

Ashton is getting very mobile now! Although he still tends to go for the caterpillar crawl more often than the conventional way of crawling, he is getting round and into everything none the less. So, today we got all of the pillows and blankets from around our little home and made a giant pillow pit!!!

To begin with Ashton just looked at the mass of pillows all over his bed room floor as a bit of an inconvenience! He couldn't get over to his keyboard, or his toy basket! So mummy got into action and jumped up on top of the pillows and showed Ashton how to get over the pillows. Once Ashton saw me crawling over the pillows to the other side he got a huge grin on his face. It was now Ashton's turn to give it a try.

Although he found it a little tricky at first, Ashton was determined to get over the pillow mound to play with his toys and climb all over me! So I kept going backwards and forwards showing him how it was done and eventually he made his way to the middle of the pillow pit! He was very proud of himself and from there he had a great time rolling around in the pillows!