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Dec. 28th, 2012 10:18 am
That was quick
My parents arrived on Monday/Christmas Eve before dinner time and like all their visits of late, are entirely engrossing, but also quite low-key. There's coffee, art projects, playing with the baby, walks, jaunts to Harvard Sq and/or Porter, maybe a visit to friends, movies watched, cookies baked (if it's Christmas), and did I mention playing with the baby?
A feature of this visit included a trip to Together In Motion on Boxing Day to see if it was as good of a playspace for Mr. D. as we hoped. We went there first under artificial circumstances of Rock Star's birthday, which gave intimations of great. The main room is filled with building / climbing components that are made out of solid, vinyl covered foam. The floors are padded and they use double paned plexiglass for windows, which acts as a remarkably good noise insulator. Wednesday mid-day is the 0-24 month drop in play time, which is excellent. Crime Fighter is on the upper tier of mobility and height with that group, so unlikely to get wholly run down, like with the 0-6 year time. He soaked it all in and then started to vibrate with excitement and didn't stop moving for the whole hour we were there. My mom bought us a multi-pass, which will make rainy/snowy gross days a bit more entertaining for a while. We went back yesterday and experienced the 0-6 thing. Do-able, but total pandemonium.
We also had a very nice visit with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asciikitty's parents. One must remember that the introverted are not necessarily incapable of prolonged conversation, it just takes them a while to get rolling. I think that her parents clearly are comfortable with mine because jabber-jabber-jabber! You know. In the good way.
Oh- and there was also the whole Christmas thing- lots and LOTS of presents for the kid. I went through and filled a medium sized UHaul box with all sorts of stuff to minimize the overall density last night. We had just inherited a bunch of toys a few weeks ago, plus the stuff from friends and family that just arrived. We are even holding off on a few later arrival presents because it's just so much stuff. He can open one or two later. That whole "wrapping paper thing" is now a known quantity.
All in all, a very good visit and hedging on too short rather than too long for duration.
A feature of this visit included a trip to Together In Motion on Boxing Day to see if it was as good of a playspace for Mr. D. as we hoped. We went there first under artificial circumstances of Rock Star's birthday, which gave intimations of great. The main room is filled with building / climbing components that are made out of solid, vinyl covered foam. The floors are padded and they use double paned plexiglass for windows, which acts as a remarkably good noise insulator. Wednesday mid-day is the 0-24 month drop in play time, which is excellent. Crime Fighter is on the upper tier of mobility and height with that group, so unlikely to get wholly run down, like with the 0-6 year time. He soaked it all in and then started to vibrate with excitement and didn't stop moving for the whole hour we were there. My mom bought us a multi-pass, which will make rainy/snowy gross days a bit more entertaining for a while. We went back yesterday and experienced the 0-6 thing. Do-able, but total pandemonium.
We also had a very nice visit with
asciikitty's parents. One must remember that the introverted are not necessarily incapable of prolonged conversation, it just takes them a while to get rolling. I think that her parents clearly are comfortable with mine because jabber-jabber-jabber! You know. In the good way. Oh- and there was also the whole Christmas thing- lots and LOTS of presents for the kid. I went through and filled a medium sized UHaul box with all sorts of stuff to minimize the overall density last night. We had just inherited a bunch of toys a few weeks ago, plus the stuff from friends and family that just arrived. We are even holding off on a few later arrival presents because it's just so much stuff. He can open one or two later. That whole "wrapping paper thing" is now a known quantity.
All in all, a very good visit and hedging on too short rather than too long for duration.
