Capella Play and a trip to the beach...

We have had quite a few opportunities since the beginning of August to start investigating our options for indoor play. The weather has been pretty rotten nearly every day, which doesn't dampen Ruby's desire to play out in it--just Mommy's! Anyhow, we have visited Capella Play a few times which is one of those giant play centers for kids with balls, slides, tunnels, games, mini "traffic areas", train sets, etc. Ruby discovered this little pram in the "traffic area" and really loved arranging the dolls in there and pushing it around.

This "funny face" that Ruby is making is her surprised face, I guess. She had just discovered that if she slapped the top of the drum it made a big sound--too cool! She does that face ALL the time now though. It's really a pretty silly face, but she likes it!

Well, we did go with Claire and Carter, but as you can see there aren't many pictures of them together as they were interested in different things. Carter loves anything with wheels--cars, trains, etc. where Ruby is 100% girl and loves her dolls and some of the puzzle type toys.

One of Ruby's favorite things at Capella are the slides. She doesn't so much care about going down, although she does think that's fun...it's the scaling up them that she enjoys most. This picture is of the smallest "baby" slide in the place. Later on we were crawling in the huge play area and there is a slide with about 5 lanes and two humps going down, so it's long and steep. I went down with Ruby and before I knew it she had scaled her way halfway up! I couldn't even catch her until she was already at the top and then of course she wailed when I grabbed her... Mommies sure know how to ruin a good time!

This picture was taken down in Køge. We had been planning on having a beach day for Moms'N'Tots, but unfortunately it was really pretty cool so no swimming. Also there were about a million of those little brine shrimp (sea monkeys!) that kept getting stuck inside your sandals! YUCK! Ruby didn't mind the cool weather or the sea monkey and was happy to splash around in the water for a bit. She just LOVES the water.

Here is our Moms'N'Tots group as it was then. I'm happy to report that we have added two more Moms and kids to our little group and we are really enjoying getting to know the new additions. Ruby is going back into a clingy stage the last week or so (precipitated by being sick last week I think), so we didn't have all that much fun this week, but hopefully she'll start playing again soon!