A full day

To start the day off we got up and out early to go to Gymrompers. We worked out a deal where we put their logo on our meetup group's homepage and they gave us a free class, its a win-win. Gymrompers is a room full of padding and things to climb on and jump off, there are slides and all kinds of cool little things to play on. The class was a lot of songs with puppets and bubbles and other things. The first half of the class Chance didn't really care at all about it, he was busy playing with all the new things then there was a 15 minute break of free play where everyone was playing, then we got back in a circle and played with a big parachute which was tons of fun and Chance really liked it, at first the kids sat on top and the parents pulled them around and then we all got underneath and sang a couple songs, Chance was a little more into it after that but the parachute was definitely his favorite part other than just playing. It was great to be able to take this class for free but it is a bit on the expensive side for what it is, especially if Chance isn't really into half of it. This picture is blurry but it is the only one of him I got since I forgot my camera at home. After Gymrompers we went shopping at Target, with a little faraway help from Nana and Grandpa Von we picked up some new socks for Chance and a kiddie pool (also mostly for Chance), then we came home for a nap. The first thing Chance asked about when he woke up was the pool so after an embarrassing amount of work to get the thing blown up* we headed outside for a swim. The Pool is pretty good size 5'3''x5'3'' square with a removable sun shade which works wonderfully. While the pool was filling up I gave Deedle a bath (not in the pool) and then I got in the pool with Chance. We were in the pool for over an hour just playing and having a good time. I forgot to bring out any tub toys so they are on my list for next time which will probably be in the next couple days. We dumped all the water out today because I want to lay some old towels down to make it a little softer underneath and so we don't put a hole in the bottom with anything sharp that might be on the ground so it will be even better next time.
Tomorrow we are cleaning then after nap Scott comes home!!
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*so I opened the box and realized there was no way I was going to blow the whole pool up by hand or mouth as it were. So I pulled the air compressor that we carry in the car for flat tires out of the trunk and tried it but we have misplaced the adaptor kit so I couldn't get it to work. Then I pulled out my hair dryer set it to cool and using an adaptor (not the right one) proceeded to attempt blowing up the pool. It was working very very slowly. I continued to do this for about 10 minutes then whole time staring at a much bigger hole right next to the little one, this hole was intended to let the air out and so it took all that time to register that I could in fact put the air in that hole as well. Once I figured this out things went much faster and we were swimming in no time. this is just one of those things that make you feel slow to learn I always say that I am "slow not stupid" and this just proves it.