ATTACK OF THE ELEPHANT STATUE
Before it reached 100 degrees today I decided to bring my daughter to the park to play. We played on the swings for a while. She loves the swings! Just sits back, while I do all the work, loving life (sounds a lot like my husband). After I decided I was bored of swinging we moved onto the animal statues. Just as I was thinking oh how cute an elephant, seal and turtle a mountain of water came squirting out of each of them. While my daughter laughed with delight I stood there thinking “what the hell was that!” I’m obviously a slow learner because it wasn’t until after the second waterfall that I realized we were standing in the middle of a small water park! Are you kidding me its only 10 am! Already my day is not going well. While she ran and played in the water I stood there, feeling a bit foolish, ringing out my dress. Deep breath. Ok, now onto the planning of taking out an animal water park. While I sat there, embarrassed and planning the killing of the statues, my daughter was running and laughing with amusement as the elephant squirted water from its tusk and the seal splashed water with its tail. She loved it! After a while she wanted to explore the rest of the park. On we went. The slide provided fun for 2 minutes. The monkey bars, I don’t think so. The mud…OH THE MUD! I looked away for one second to turn on my camera and it wasn’t until I was looking through the lens I noticed she was chewing something. After running through a list of things she had eaten today, and realizing the last thing she ate was at 8 am I became concerned. I raced over to see what in the world she had put in her mouth now and found a great big pile of mud! Well that’s just wonderful. Now I really have parents staring at me. I just got attacked by an elephant, turtle and seal, and now my child was eating piles of mud. Time: 1050. Our wonderful morning at the park I planned only lasted an hour – which inadvertently is long enough for a dozen parents who witnessed this to really feel good about themselves. At least I can help with self esteem issues!
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