I feel like our spontaneous road trips often take us to Edmonton. This time, we are here sharing a short visit with Bradys parents, who are here on some personal business. We met up with them at our hotel in the early evening and visited while we fed Laela. Once the littlest Miss was content, we took a quick walk across the parking lot to Denny’s for supper. My fish and chips really hit the spot! Laela was less impressed with the setting but she actually did pretty well considering her nap-free day of travel.
After we ate, we rushed over to the nearby Canadian Tire for some water toys and then hit the pool. Luckily, there were very few other guests in the pool area, and the only others hung out in the hot tub, so we took over the cold pool and threw balls and splashed and tickled and played. Dekker loved watching Brady and Phil go down the waterslide, and it wasn’t long before he agreed to go down with Brady.
The slide was a tunnel all the way down, so we were all a little worried Dekker would lose it, but it was worth a try! Brady did everything in his power to slow them down and to keep Dekker feeling secure, but he lost control coming around the last corner and both boys went all the way under the water at the end of the slide. Dekker has never been in a similar circumstance, minus his nine month stay in my uterus, and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t remember that stage of life, so this was very new. It had the potential to be a HUGE setback in his fear of water.
But it wasn’t 🙂 He had a short cry, and then recovered and resumed ball throwing. He bragged and talked animatedly about his trip down the slide. We asked if he wanted to go again, to which he replied “Ya! …no.” So I think he actually really really enjoyed it, even with the dunk in the end. We’re hoping to find time to go again tomorrow morning, so maybe we’ll give the slide another go.
I’m so proud of Dekker for being so brave and going down the tunnel waterslide!! Such an accomplishment for our shy little boy.