McDermont Afternoon

We were feeling a little blue this morning due to the very sorry state of the peanut butter supply at our house:

as well as the fact that in central California summer is the time that you have to stay indoors often because of the wretched heat.  But we don't go over to McDermont nearly often enough, so I have a rather copious amount of arcade money saved up on my card, so McDermont this afternoon was the place to be.  We played lots of arcade games, and since Daddy was there all day working on the slot car track, he took a break and did a little Nascar racing with the older kids:

Keilana and Dylan haven't spent much time in the Big House yet, so we went and checked all that out, too.  They watched a game on the first floor soccer field before heading over to the tree:
Kylie loves real grass, so I thought I'd see how she did with the artificial turf.  It was a hit, she loved it!  She was crawling all over the place, content as can be.  Unfortunately, I had to pick her up after a while, because she kept eating the rubber:
(Yes, in the above photo that is my child with the Pebbles hair do and little pink flower.  Don't hate 'cause you ain't).  Keilana and Kylie posed near center field on the 3rd floor soccer field.  If you look hard, behind them you can see (past the cat walks and what not) the huge tree a the other end of the building:

The tree turned out oh-so-cool.  To help you with the size, this thing is five stories tall. There are party rooms (for birthday parties and whatnot) inside the tree.  Next to it is the rock wall, for some excellent climbing.  The soccer logo banner hanging in the foreground is for one of the semi-pro teams that plays here.  Doug designed the logo (well, and the tree, since I'm mentioning it).  He's so talented!!
Dylan and Keilana both love the bounce houses.  We spent about 2 1/2 hours over there today, and nearly an hour and a half of that was spent at bounce houses.  This is Dylan's favorite, the Lightening McQueen slide:
Keilana checks out the waterfall that comes down the side of the rock wall.  She is still undecided about climbing it.  She was absolutely fearless until her 2nd birthday, but then her peripheral nervous system finally kicked in and she realized that the world can be painful.  Ever since then she's been a bit of a wimp. :)  
Someday I'll go over when my hands aren't already totally full and take a real camera, perhaps do a McDermont tour on my blog.  But for now, iPhone shots will have to do :)