Fuller spent most of yesterday cooped up in his room watching DVDs while his Daddy and I spent a lot of time installing the new ceiling panels in the living room.

Any time we took a break we were in there playing with him, trying hard to make up for the fact that for those hours he wasn’t able to move about the house as he pleased. He was fine in the company of Wallace & Grommit and Leap, Tad, & Lily but of course it didn’t really make up for the fact that he couldn’t reign supreme over the whole house.

So, as a treat for being a good boy, we took him to the Hamilton Place play area- a free, indoor play area for kids Fuller’s age and size.

Fuller had a blast climbing through the tunnels, climbing the wrong side of the slide, and finally sliding down the slide all on his own. The two hours we spent there were punctuated by a few escape attempts as he ran out the exit and straight for the American Eagle store.

When we returned home Fuller was immediately ready for bed, where he slept fourteen hours.

When we see Fuller exploring a place like that, interacting with children his age and size, it makes me realize just how quickly he is growing and changing. He is tall for his age and very independent and in a few years he will probably be beating up some of those kids in the play area, but for now I relish the fact that when he climbs something and looks around for praise he spots me and smiles really big.

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