Bucks-Mont Indoor Sports Center

This morning my meetup group had an outing to the Bucks-Mont Indoor Sports Center. Basically, this sports arena offers organized sporting activities for kids and adults but a few mornings a week they have Play Pals, where they fill their field with tons of toys, books, games and the kids can just run wild for 2.5 hours playing. It is fantastic! Both boys had so much fun!

They had one of those inflatable bouncy things and Ben actually went on this and enjoyed it. Man, he is really starting to surprise me by overcoming all of these fears as he was always terrified of these things. This one was a smaller one and there were no "big kids" to rough house inside of it so that also probably helped.

Here, the two Martin brothers relax on a Diego sofabed together, wondering what to play with next.

They loved the slide. Nate also smiled as he went down it but since I was helping him out (and forgot to bug another mom to take a photo) I only have pictures of Ben on it.

There are lots of toys for babies as well as toddlers and preschoolers. Nate had fun exploring and was stuck on this rattle ball the entire time. He didn't want to give it up!

Oh no, it rolled away! Get it back for me, Mom!

Halfway through the morning, they even do a storytime and this week the featured books were some Elmo book and also one of my favorites, The Giving Tree. Ah, memories of Shel Silverstein. Ben had to be front and center.

Here the two brothers play together again with some fun infant toys.

Ben loved pulling around the big red wagon they have and loved it even more when he got the idea to fill it with big trucks!

Peek-a-boo!

On a side note, we are very proud of Benjamin this week. He decided last weekend that he did not want to wear his diapers anymore and has been wearing underpants ever since with only 2 accidents the entire week. He wakes up dry from his naps (even though we put a Pull Up on him for those, just in case) and tells us when it's time to use his potty. And two big milestones yesterday and today - he offically did his #2 business in his potty consistently yesterday and also used the public restroom at the Bucks-Mont Sports Center this morning as well. He had been hesitant to use the "big potty" before today but thanks to our nifty fold-up Sesame Street potty topper that we can keep in the diaper bag, he had no problems and no fears. What a big boy he is!