Showing posts with label outings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outings. Show all posts

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Fairyland Christmas Winterland

The kids love Fairyland in Oakland. All the rides are just their size, the rules are loosely enforced so heights that are "almost" are allowed to ride. The park is just small enough that it is totally walkable for a 3 year old. So when we heard that they were hanging lights and having a parade and Santa we were in for sure! The park was not nearly as full as in the summer, so there were little to no lines. It was great! Even with the funny fuzzy animals with Christmas hats running around. A Christmas Siberian Husky and Chipmunk.....OK.

Mini Carousel just Mason's size!

Christmas Siberian Husky? OK.

The boys giving Nana some love

Wyatt and Pop-Pop


Mason with a Christmas Chipmunk, Husky, and Reindeer


Snowflake the Elf gave us a fun Magic Show that held both boys attention for 30 minutes


Santa!!!! I have to say how awesome it was to have a Santa without white skin. I have to say that was even more amazing to me is that Mason didn't even bat an eye. He accepted that this was Santa. I really strive to raise the boys so that people are just people no matter what minor differences we all have. Maybe he never even saw his skin color because it was just Santa to him. Whatever it was I love that my son at 3 doesn't even notice!


Squishing pennies

Dickens Street Fair

This was one of those things that we heard about last year but just couldn't fit into our schedule. We made it happen this year. The stalls of the Cow palace are transformed to England around the time of  The Christmas Carol. There is saw dust on the floor, people dressed in costume, talking in old English, all the food and drink is of the correct period. There is music playing, and people dancing. It was a ton of fun! The boys really had a great time. I can say that next year we be sure to go again.

Throughout the day Scrooge is on stage and walking the event with different ghosts. Here he is with the ghost of Christmas past:

Some ladies sitting around the local drinking pub:


Mason and Wyatt loved the food....especially the sweet nuts....that is pretty much all they ate for the day :)

To my surprise Mason really enjoyed watching the dancers.



The merry go round was all safari animals. Instead of being held to the ground like modern day ones this one suspends from the air, and has plush animals to sit on. As the kids go around the "safari leaders" would toss a foam rock up the air and warn the kids of "falling rocks". It was ridiculously over priced, but Mason loved it!






Here is scrooge with Christmas present watching some dancing.



By this point Wyatt was done. When Wyatt is done, the day is pretty much over. There is not much convincing this child that there is more fun to be had. He does love Santa, but his patience for pictures, even with mom was over :(


Thursday, October 16, 2008

Kindermusik Outing

http://www.musicwithmelissa.com/

Today Mason and i went to Kindermusik.

I am tired of sitting in the house, or going shopping, or for a walk. These are all good things to do - but every once in a while i need something different to do. There are exercise classes where you take the baby with you - but that ends up being neither fun or mom or baby, how can you do yoga when the baby wants to be rocked? (Besides when is exercise fun? i have signed up for a pilates class all by myself - but i wouldn't call that fun - just necessary! since my body is in a state of never before seen flab) so i started googling and looking for classes. This class was geared for babies (birth -20 months) which is unusual and they offered a FREE trial class, which is great these days.

It was so much fun! there is singing and dancing and signing and instruments and flags. Most of it is done by the parents with the kids participating as they are able. But it was awesome to interact with mason differently, see him watch the other kids, to be with other moms - and just get out of the house. I am sure Kurt is glad that i will learn new songs - i have been singing the same 3 songs that i only remember half of for the past 10 weeks - often with my own words made up - a change in that department will be nice.

Of course after 4 days of no poop, in the middle of our class Mason decided to end that issue - 3 times. Murphy's Law!

So starting October 30th Mason and i are enrolling in our very first mommy and me class. And i am so excited!