Splash Lagoon

As usual, I am behind in posting :-P. Joe and I took all 3 kids to Splash Lagoon, an indoor waterpark, at the beginning of the month. We left Thursday around lunchtime and got checked in to the hotel, which was connected to the waterpark (SO nice), a little after 3. We got changed in to our suits and headed over to the park. Ryan is not a big fan of water, other than the bathtub, so I was expecting some resistance from him even getting in to the kiddie pool. But it didn't happen! :-) He got right in. Brooke was more cautious and didn't want me to let go of her at first. They had a few slides and surprisingly Ryan went right up the steps and down the slide without much of a second thought, as long as I was there to "catch" him at the bottom (in 18in. of water). Cole is a little fish and he didn't need any time to adjust at all. After a little while at the park, we headed back to the hotel to get ready to order dinner (pizza). Our room had a jacuzzi tub and the kids had a blast playing in it while waiting for the pizza to get there.

Friday morning we had some breakfast and then headed over to the park around 10. I indulged Ryan a couple times by "catching" him at the bottom of the slide and then I had him do it himself. He had no problem (usually) standing up at the bottom. Once in awhile he would lose his balance, but he did really well with not freaking out about it :-). He doesn't like his face getting wet, so we'll have to work on that. Brooke was pretty much velcroed to me unless we hung out at the entry to the kiddie pool where they had some tiny fountains that she loved playing in. Cole was busy checking out the whole park (with Joe, of course) and he loved the family whirlpool and hot tub. Ryan, Brooke, and I got in them for a bit too and Ryan did well in the 3ft water, which surprised me a little, but he preferred the slides in the kiddie pool.

Ryan thinks he is smiling...um, no.

An attempt to get a shot of the 2 of them together :-P.

Attempt 2...it wasn't happening.

Yep, she's too big for these. Nope, she didn't care (SHE wanted in lol). But she sure did get mad when she tried to walk over to the baby in the one next to her and couldn't. LOL.



We had lunch at the snackbar in the waterpark and then headed back to the water for awhile before heading upstairs to check out the arcade. This was definitely Ryan's favorite part. LOL. It did result in a few minor meltdowns from him, but after talking to him I did manage to get him to NOT throw a tantrum when it came time to leave the arcade. We headed back to the room around 4:30 and by that time Brooke was pretty crabby having not had a nap that day OR the day before. She was definitely done with the park. We hung out for awhile and then ordered dinner, this time Applebee's who delivered to the hotel which made it really nice. The kids once again played in the tub while waiting for dinner. It was a nice way to keep them occupied.

I had to throw this one in just so you could see how curly Brooke's hair got ;-).

She is SUCH. A. HAM.!

Ryan pushed the button to turn the jets on, even though none of them liked the jets and this is what happened. Ryan started crying and Cole then wanted to get out. Brooke was kind of just doing her own thing, like she usually is.

Being a stinker while eating dinner.

Can you tell she was tired?? LOL.


We left the hotel around 10 Saturday morning after eating breakfast and headed to Joe's. Cole turned 4 on Saturday and he had a small party that evening. The kids all had a lot of fun. We slept there that night and headed home Sunday evening. It was a great 4 days :-).