Aaaaahhhh.... summertime. A time to relax... and a time for lots of naps! Zane loves Nonni's big tub and climbed in one afternoon with a pillow from her bed and fell asleep watching his iPod.
Grandpa Comish wasn't too happy to see his pillow in the tub and playfully teases about Zane frequently crawling into his side of the bed to get snuggled and cozy while he watches his movies. Today he just happened to find the tub a suitable bed. Sometimes when things get a little too quiet, we wonder what happened to Zane.... then we think to check Nonni and Grandpa's bed and.... yep! There he is! All snuggled in for a cozy nap. :)
During our visit to Tulsa to see Todd, we found a really fun kids park with neat water activities, fountains, falls, etc. Zane really enjoyed that and Todd is so great with Zane and helping him figure out how to get in and get dirty!
This park is really smartly designed with little man-made hills covered in artificial grass that act as an enclosure/seating area. It is really perfect for parents who can then see their child from any area of the park they are in and for a kids like Zane, who tends to run off, it provides a boundary area that makes sense to him.
Todd is such a great dad to Zane... he knows just what to do to get Zane to respond to his surroundings and Zane always gets more verbal when he is around. At the park, Todd showed Zane what the other kids were doing by sitting him down in the water and getting him all wet and helped him chase the water in the various fountains. After that, Zane had no problem investigating the fun on his own!
I wish we had parks like this in Utah... the kids have so much fun and there are different sensory experiences there for kids like Zane.
Sweet daddy brought all of us to the zoo in Tulsa and we had so much fun! I rented a little push cart for Zane to ride in, which saved us all from having to carry him everywhere. He had a great time riding to each exhibit then jumping out to investigate and hopping back into his little car to move on to the next stop.
We took a camel ride and Zane kept looking down and around the camel trying to figure out how this thing worked. You could see the expression on his face that said: What's moving this thing? :)
Zane's favorite exhibit was the wetlands which was really neat. We walked through a jungle and saw several small aquariums that looked like a cross-section, seeing above the water and the bottom of the water at the same time and all right at Zane's level. I think we could have spend hours there.
He did so great at the zoo... I am very proud of him. It was a long, hot day and he stayed interested and happy the whole time!
Todd also brought us to see the aquarium while PawPaw and Granny were there to visit and spend time with Zane. Another great activity idea for Zane, although it didn't hold the same interest as the zoo but I believe that is because the zoo is so spread out - not so many visuals in one place to cause distraction to him. He loves the fish and especially the jellyfish. We also went under the shark exhibit where you walk through a tunnel and watch all the scary sharks swim over your head! Zane was fascinated!!
Most of Zane's interest was caught up in the smaller aquariums were he could find the little fish and follow the bubbles that the smaller tanks filters made.
He had a hard time adjusting to a new place and unknown schedule for the first two days. Todd and I decided that next time we would wait for Zane to adjust before bringing him to these activities, hoping he would handle the overwhelming input a little easier.... but he still did pretty well.
We had such a fun time with all of us together again. Todd was wonderful to buy Zane a hammock swing for his apartment which made Zane feel more on his normal schedule and surroundings. It really helped him sleep better at night - he would swing until he started to get tired and then go and put himself to bed... little sweetheart.
It was hard to leave, but we needed to come home and get ready for school to start. Zane slept almost the entire plane ride and was happy to get in his own bed that night.
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