I chaperoned K's field trip yesterday to Coco Key - a pretty cool water park in Mt. Laurel, NJ. http://www.mtlaurelcocokey.com/
I really didn't know what to expect as there are mixed reviews online. I was somewhat concerned that all of the lifeguards and safety personnel looked to be 12 years old but they did stay on top of the more rambunctious kids and at least we had K's teachers there as extra added support. There were no obvious signs from the road (there's lots of construction going on) so it took some time to find it. Anyways, that's not why you're reading this. You want to know why my kids are driving me crazy and vice versa.
On the way over the bridge to NJ, K asked if we were in NJ yet because, "That's where Aunt Kirsten lives!!! Oh yeah, and Uncle Dan too." When we got there, we had a blast and spent a lot of time on the lazy river ride. K would get excited every time we went under a waterfall and she capsized us a few times, one of those times included me going under. Thanks, K!
At one point, K wanted to go on the lazy river ride by herself. I gave her a definite NO. One of her teachers, Miss Erin, offered to start the ride with her and let Miss Paige finish the ride with her. That was fine by me as I was wrangling some of the other kids. I watched K round the corner then I was keeping an eye on some of the other kids, making sure they were secure in their tubes. When I rounded the corner, Miss Paige was holding onto K's tube because, apparently, K was excited at one of the waterfalls again and fell out of her tube. Miss Paige held onto her until I could take over. I got to K and we were fine. Flash forward to about 10pm that night and K was crying in bed, saying that I abandoned her when she went under water because I was helping Nick (one of her classmates) get back into his tube. She was questioning how much I love her. That led to a late night conversation about how she wanted to try it by herself, I made sure that teachers were with her, and now she knows why I don't like letting her do somethings by herself. I never thought in a million years that I'd have to spend hours convincing Kahlan how much I love her. She was crying hysterically.
Flash back to the afternoon. So we spent the afternoon going on slides, on tubes, splashing, and having fun. We left about an hour before we were supposed to so we could go visit Aunt Kirsten, who lives only 15 minutes away from the park. Kirsten got a taste of parenthood. As Kirsten and I were trying to talk, you could hear this little voice... "Aunt Kirsten! Look at this! Aunt Kirsten! Did you see this? Aunt Kirsten, I'm hungry! I have to go to the bathroom!" When Uncle Dan got home from work, K and Dan had a great conversation about zombies and fire. Eventually, it was time for us to leave because I still had to make dinner. K was crying again about how much she doesn't want to leave and she doesn't want to go home, she wants to stay with Aunt Kirsten... Want to take a guess as to how quickly she fell asleep in the car?
We got home and I pulled into our driveway, opened K's car door for air, and went up to the porch to unlock our front door. Devon saw me and started with the, "Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom!" and I felt horrible because I had to leave her momentarily to get her sleeping sister out of the car. I could hear her crying as I left her to get K.
I am psychologically damaging my kids - yay! (sad mommy face inserted here)
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