Jadon’s not the only one going stir-crazy around here. The combination of working from home in the middle of winter with 2 little ones underfoot is enough drive me stir-crazy too. I can only watch Elmo’s World so many times before my brain goes numb. My conversation level hovers in the 2 year old range with the occasional cooing of a 10 week old so I long for adult conversations. This winter has been too cold for too long and while Clarksville isn’t Nashville it isn’t a small town either, so I am surprised there isn’t more to do. There is only so much for toddlers to do in Clarskville in the middle of winter, let alone things that toddler and parents can enjoy. Don’t get me wrong – we have a wonderful Children’s Library, but my idea of fun isn’t chasing Jadon around as he pulls books off the shelves and tosses toys everywhere. And don’t get me started on Chucky Cheese – it’s like ‘Elmo’s World: Elmo Goes to Vegas’ if there ever was such an episode. I am still recovering from the one and only time I was there.
Thursday night I finally snapped. I couldn’t take Horton Hears a Who, Play-Doh or requests for 5 bubble baths a day any longer. So when Jacques got home from work I told him to get in the car because we were going to Nashville. I figured we could check out Stingray Reef at the Opry Mills Mall. I like that kind of thing and so does Jacques and Jadon. So at 6:00 pm we loaded up the van and drove to Nashville –it was a fabulous ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ night!
Feeding the rays
First Merry-Go-Round ride ever
Looking at the snake
