Quite a Sunday and we’re now paying for it with a kid who falls asleep and wakes up excited and crying.
It started off with a half marathon in front of our house. The runners went up stadium drive around Sloan Lake and then back down stadium drive towards the final mile into downtown. We went out to watch the runners and he declared he wanted to run with bulls. We compromised by racing up the sidewalk next to the runners. This gave Mom enough time to make breakfast. After our cheesy eggs we went to the playground next to Volker lofts. We then met TJ, Annette, Courtney and Annette’s sister and her family at Mercury Café.
It was then nap time for Griffin while Dad went to see the Rockies tie a franchise record of 11 wins in a row. Colorado kept its streak going in victories and nasty weather. The game had to be called for 45 minutes as a funnel cloud was seen forming near the stadium. It was the same one Kim was describing to me over the phone appearing over our house. You can see the funnel starting to reach out of the cloud but luckily it didn't fully develop. In hindsight it was a little scary. I hope the Rockies end the correlation soon without a sacrifice to their record or our property.
After nap we met up with our old friend Max and his mom Melissa and dad Scott. Our families went in on an Elitch's season pass and we’re trying to put it to good use. We got Max to go into the ball pit for the first time, mostly to get out of the last rain of the day. We also unfortunately found a ride they didn’t like. Partly because it was a little more sophisticated (it went up and down about 15 feet) and partly because I think Griffin ended up having collected rainwater poured on him during the ride. By about the 3rd pass they were both screaming and crying. Luckily there was one other girl on the ride and we managed to get the ride shut down to get them. All the while we were next to where they put on the Bob the Builder outdoor show. The moment they started playing warmup music in his theater Griffin knew. Unfortunately it was in the middle of the swing ride and he immediately started crying and wanting to get off. His ability to recognize something was about to happen was pretty good since he had to tune out all of the screaming kids, ride noise, and blaring park music.
Griffin telling poor innocent Max that his Mom is up to something.
Mom recognizing Max’s disdain towards aerosol sunscreen and Griffin’s evil grin. 
The star with his helpers who put on show after show day after day hour after hour. 
I was about ready to break out the smelling salts.
Our little genius for the 5th consecutive time being the first to correctly shout out the names of Bob the Builder’s machine helpers. It took very little coaching from us which was kinda frightening. Notice how the guy to his left kinda gave him a look after he nailed his 5th consecutive answer. Also notice that no one wanted to sit next to Mr. Knowitall.
I’m not too sure how this reflects on us as parents. He can say his ABC’s, count to 20 and recognize letters so for right now I feel a little better about his balance of knowledge.
We ended the day with Wazee Supper club pizza (he devoured a ¼ cup of side black olives) and a return trip back to the Volker playground. He’s going to be draggin at daycare Monday.
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