Olivia adventures

The other day I took the kids to McDonald's for lunch as a treat. While we were there only one other family came into the indoor playroom, and they had a 3 year old little girl who played marvelously with Jenna. As Olivia sat in my lap and watched the girls play, she became more and more restless and wanted to go and play, too. The family who sat next to us struck up a conversation with me, and as we talked Olivia got wigglier and wigglier. I finally relented and allowed her to walk around near the entrance to the climbing tunnels (she has transitioned to only walking now).

A short bit later, Little Robby came down the slide, and I asked him to watch Olivia for me in the first little tunnel room that was on the ground level. I turned back to talk with the family next to me thinking that Little Robby would be fine with her just as long as he kept her right there in the first little room. I chatted and chatted for the next little while, until I heard Robby calling me from up above. As I turned to look up, I was surprised to see little Olivia smiling down at me from a bubble room in the play tunnels that were far above my head!

"Robby! You weren't supposed to take her up in the tunnels!"

"But Mom, she wanted to go! She started climbing all by herself!"

"Did she up there by herself?" I questioned.

"Well, no, I had to help her up the climbing tunnels. I supported her little bum as she climbed," he admitted. (Don't you just love big brothers!)

"When I asked you to watch her, I didn't think you would take her up there!"

All the while, Olivia was pounding from the inside of the plastic bubble with this huge smile that said, "Look at me! This is so fun!" (I actually wished I had had my camera to take a picture of her. She was so proud of herself!)

I thought about climbing up there to get her myself, but from prior experience climbing in these tunnels I knew that they were designed for a kid and not an adult (I may be small, but not that small!) I asked Robby how he was going to get her down, and he said, "I'll just take her down the slide!" I reluctantly permitted this idea because I thought it would be much safer than having him try to crawl down the tunnels with an extra 20lbs.

So off they climbed again to the top of the play tunnels, and Olivia got her first slide ride ever down the BIG twisty slide at McDonald's. And what did she think? Well, she was so excited she tried to go and do it again!

Unfortunately for her, Mom felt like we had had enough of McDonald's and the playplace for the day.

(Little Robby just read this post and said to me, "You make it look like it was my fault! It's not my fault she wanted to climb up there!")