A Play Date at The Club

Charles had his first play date this weekend. We got together with my friend Nikki and her son Carter. Carter is 4, so he is a little bit older than Charles, but Charles loves older kids, so it worked out great.

It is very mom of me to set up a play date for my child. It is also very posh of me, because the playdate itself was at The Club. It would have been more posh, if I was a member at The Club myself...but it was close enough that Nikki is a member at The Club and she let us join her as her guests. I was trying to think of some posh names for Charles and I to go by when we went to The Club. I was going to go by Buffy, but when I was trying to think of a name for Charles...I realized that his name is already Charles and it doesn't get much more posh than that.

Everyone involved had a WONDERFUL time. There is a little indoor waterpark at The Club and I even think I will have Charles's birthday there. (here is a link in case you are curious). We rebelliously took the kids into the hot tub. Carter can barely touch in the hot tub and was showing off his height. We tortured Charles through the lazy river. He hated the whole thing, but was brave enough to not cry the whole time. He merely pouted. Charles's favorite part was the kiddy pool. it had a 2 feet high slide and Charles would have played on that all day. He also loved that he could run around in the water on his own. However, it wouldn't be a family adventure if there weren't a few mishaps. These mishaps were hilarious.

• Charles loves to take off his socks and shoes in the car. We were already running late for our play date and I wasn't happy that I had to redo the socks and shoes. Somehow, Charles made one of his socks dissappear. I drive a small car. I don't know how he could make the sock dissappear. Finally I gave up, and put on one sock and two shoes. What a great first impression we made on The Club.
• The Club has an amazing family locker room. It is a hall way of lockers, and there are individual rooms that you go into to change. These rooms have their own shower, toilet, sink, and bench. It is a good thing we had this private room. I am sure that if I let Charles walk around in a regular locker room, he would go around grabbing strange butts. However, even in this private room we had some hilarity. First Charles flushed the toilet and it scared him. Poor little guy. It scared him so bad that when I took off his diaper to put on his swimmy diaper, he peed all over the floor. As I was getting paper towel and wipes to clean up the pee, he started stepping in the urine with his one good sock. I had to take it off and throw it away.
• We were going to eat lunch at The Club. We were even going to call it Brunch to make it more posh. We thought that maybe we would go back in the water afterwards. The Club doesn't serve lunch that early, so we were forced to go to McDonalds. It was ok, because as Carter nicely put it, "I love McDonalds too!" Because I was expecting to possibly go back in the pool, I had just put on my clothes over my bathing suit. With that particular outfit, it was a bad idea. The pants I had on that day were thin, and the water soaked into them like crazy and it looked like I really peed my pants. It was so bad that I left a butt mark on my car's driver seat and the seat at McDonalds. Oh well, so be it. Charles did eat his McNuggets like a mad man, LOVED his car he got in his happy meal, and loved running around following carter.

Even with our funny little hiccups, the playdate worked out great and I think maybe I need to plan some more.