Playpals

Playpals is the new moms/kids group that Truth Baptist Church has started in effort to minister to the families in our church and provide times of fellowship for the moms and playtime for the kids. We initially planned to meet 2 Thursday mornings a month, but will change it to Saturday mornings instead due to the work schedules of the moms we are trying to reach. Because today's "field trip" was already on the calendar for a Thursday, we decided to keep it and just move the future ones to Saturdays.

Today we went to Kids Kampus (side note: it bothers me when people name their establishments and spell their own names wrong on purpose. They think it's all cute, but it's really sort of distracting/fringing on irritating for those of us who are borderline OCD about spelling and grammar. I thought you'd like to know!). This was such a fun park for kids! It has tons of activities for them to do; everything from riding bikes to playscapes and a waterpark--all for free!!

Jen and I were the only ones who could make it to today's field trip, but we had so much fun anyway! We're looking forward to more ladies being able to join us on Saturdays hopefully. Here are some pics of Noah and Brianne living it up at Kids Kampus (Campus. There--doesn't that look better? I'm just saying!)




Woah! A Jeep!




Hopefully the largest alligator I will ever see! When Noah saw it, he said, "A Croco-gator!" I had to write that one down. :)



This was a turtle that spouted water.


Cones! They were actually covering up some ripped parts in the rubber flooring, but Noah didn't care. Strangely, those were a big attraction. Boys!



Noah prefers backing up to the sprinklers.




A rare shot of both Noah and Brianne in the same place looking in the same general direction. It's hard to get two on-the-go kids to be in the same picture!





Don't go down the drain, Brianne! Again, oddly enough, the drain was a huge attraction. Just put out drains and construction equipment and there you have a playground! :)




Squirted by the "hydrant"


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cj and family said…
Looks like a blast! I think we need to transplant it . . . but we'll call it's Children's Campus . . . just for you. :o)
August 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM
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