Indoor playground is awesome!

At the university mall in Orem, they have a playground with a giant treehouse where kids can play. They have a fake dinosaur bones and a slide. We like to go there since it's indoors (yay, no sunburn!) plus I've discovered that Alden will play (somewhat) by himself so I can just sit and keep an eye on him. (And yes, this is where he broke his leg a few months ago...).

Alden is not very adventurous but if he sees other kids doing something (like going down a slide), he will venture out and do the same. But he doesn't play WITH anyone else. The most I've seen him interact with other kids is just hovering around them and watching what's going on. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with not being able to communicate. If there is a line to go down the slide, he will just go let everyone else go in front of him and wait until there is no line to go down the slide.

The most exciting toy store

We went on a walk at the Riverwoods Mall the other day and found this new toy shop called Flickenstaff. It was the most exciting toy store we've ever been! They had fun music on, but not only that, they had tons of toys and candy that brought many memories. Alden had fun looking around and pushing a cart around the store and picking out stuff that mommy and daddy were too cheap to buy for him. Ha ha. Well, he was just randomly picking small enough items to go in his cart. It was so cute to watch him run around with his own cart because he always tries to help me push the carts around the grocery store.

Everything was way over priced but it would be a fun place to any families to go and spend some time in. Joe was coveting over all the candy and surprised how many different types of M&Ms they had there.

This is a picture of Alden pushing his cart. I think he already has 2 things of playdough in there. lol.

You can see that Alden's cart is almost full. He picked out these fuzzy string thingies and started putting all of them in his cart. lol.

Alden, stocking his cart.

This is how he poses when I say "Cheese" for the pictures. I have no idea where he picked this up... lol.

Wall of candy. Joe liked it more than Alden. Al has no idea how good they taste. lol.