showing, round 2

last night we had some buyers come through for a second showing. they requested an hour and a half showing, blueprints, hoa bylaws and fees, school information, and other specific details about the house and neighborhood so we feel like they are fairly serious. (in fact, we found out today that they are going to put together an offer on saturday morning so we will see...) in order to prepare for the showing matt came home early and i took the kids up to mcdonalds to the playplace for a little over an hour of fun.

just before it was time for the showing i loaded the kids up and went back to the house to get matt who had been staging the house. it was starting to snow and we had almost two hours to kill so we went to check out "kids in motion" while matt was with me (which i would definitely go to again if we were still going to live here).

"kids in motion" is a large indoor space with themed rooms surrounding a central open space. i think that our kids would have been happy to only play in the construction themed room. they both loved scooping up the dry lentils into the dump trucks, driving them up the ramp, dumping them in the bin, watching them go up the conveyor belt into the hopper, and then turning the crank at the bottom to watch them dump into a truck or on the floor again. we were able to pull them away to check out the rest of their options after 30 minutes or so.

i ended up feeding maddux almost the entire time we were there, but i was able to watch the kids and daddy play. i think they all had the most fun together in the huge play structure in the middle of the room. the best part was that it had plenty of room for matt to play too. mason really liked that part and was running all over chasing and hiding with daddy. after that they visited the other rooms and ended up in a game room where mason discovered chess (or at least the pieces). it seemed like the rooks were his favorite.

another popular activity was chasing/popping bubbles. there would be this sound signalling that the bubbles were starting soon and all the kids would come running over to pop them. madelyn is off to the left side in a purple shirt about halfway through the video and mason is the shrieking red streak. he was having so much fun!

it was a really great time and i wish that we could go again. maybe when we come back to close on our house some day... love.