A 'No Nap' Afternoon

One afternoon Erik decided to play in his room for an hour and a half instead of napping. I started freaking out, 'why isn't he sleeping? what if he's phasing out of naps?' The positive part of this "nap time" was that he did spend all that time quietly in his room, so I calmed myself that IF he was phasing out of a nap at least I could negotiate an hour of "quite time" and still keep my sanity. So I let him out of his room and we went to the water park to have some fun!
Erik LOVES playing at this "water park"(splash pad). He's moved on from the small kid fountains to the big kid attractions. Like the circular water spouts.

And the HUGE puddle that builds near the drain, that's a big kid favorite.

This is Erik's "cheese" face. He now notices the camera enough to say cheese w/o being prompted. :)

Time for some playground fun. He was driving the boats here.

Another Cheese grin.

After we left the park, guess what Erik did?

FELL ASLEEP IN THE CAR!!

The little turkey got all worn out at the park that he fell, HARD, asleep. He was holding a water bottle in his lap when he fell asleep and the water tipped over and splashed on him as I turned a corner, he didn't even flinch, out cold.

I'm happy to report that Erik has taken very good naps since this incident and that my sanity is secured. All is well :)