{"id":2518,"date":"2011-05-27T10:08:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superrachelzana.com\/blog\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2011-05-27T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:08:59","slug":"the-velcro-suit-and-a-well-used-can-of-silly-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"The Velcro Suit and a Well-Used Can of Silly String"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr. Sneaky Pants was extremely excited about going to the carnival, and enjoyed every second of the chaos. \u00a0He played all sorts of indoor games and loved spending his tokens for a prize. \u00a0He was even more excited about the inflatable attractions outside the school. \u00a0When we got out the door he immediately ran right over to the silly string arena. \u00a0Each year at the carnival there is a roped off area of the playground. \u00a0You pay 8 tickets for a can of silly string and admission into the fence, where you can zap anyone you\u2019d like with silly string. \u00a0It is very popular and looks like a ton of fun. \u00a0For years, however, YaYa has glanced over there in disdain, \u201cWhy would anyone want to waste their tickets on THAT?\u201d \u00a0 Let\u2019s just say that the silly string arena was right up Mr. SP\u201ds alley. \u00a0He had the time of his life.<\/p>\n

After bouncing in the bouncing house, and a quick ride down an inflatable slide, Mr. SP decided that he really wanted to tackle the velcro wall this year. \u00a0I\u2019ve always avoided the velcro wall because there is a very, very long wait in line to wear a velcro suit. \u00a0The velcro wall is an inflatable wall covered with velcro. \u00a0The participants wear a velcro suit and find exciting ways to stick to the wall. \u00a0I decided we might as well give it a try. \u00a0It was a long wait, and I wondered many, many times if two minutes in a velcro suit was worth the long stand in the sprinkling weather as I watched lots of kids bounce around and, well, really not do too much in the velcro suit even though they seemed to have a good time. \u00a0It turns out that it was worth it.<\/p>\n

Mr. SP donned the velcro suit, and when he was given the go ahead, he turned into Spiderman, climbing up a rope ladder on the side as far as he could go to the very tip top of the wall. \u00a0He rolled out onto the velcro like Superman and stuck there, with the most enormous grin on his face that I\u2019ve quite possibly ever seen. \u00a0Of course he\u2019s so skinny and light that he could have just stuck there all day. \u00a0Apparently the view was nice up there, because he just hung around for a very long time and then had a marvelous jump down onto the bouncy floor. \u00a0He\u2019s still talking about it.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have no pictures of the school carnival last Friday for a variety of reasons. \u00a0I was sick, and already had a baby strapped to my back who getting over a cold and had a very drippy nose, and this led me to be less than excited about managing the other kidlets in a crowd of people while I carried a heavy camera. \u00a0So I left my camera at home. \u00a0We barely managed to get to the carnival at all, really, because a certain kidlet was having a meltdown and working through that was a process that took a very, very long time. Mr. Sneaky Pants was extremely excited about going to the carnival, and enjoyed every second of the chaos. \u00a0He played all sorts of indoor games and loved spending his tokens for a prize. \u00a0He was even more excited about the inflatable attractions outside the school. \u00a0When we got out the door he immediately ran right over to the silly string arena. \u00a0Each year at the carnival there is a roped off area of the playground. \u00a0You pay 8 tickets for a can of silly string and admission into the fence, where you can zap anyone you\u2019d like with silly string. \u00a0It is very popular and looks like a ton of fun. \u00a0For years, however, YaYa has glanced over there in disdain, \u201cWhy would anyone want to waste their tickets on THAT?\u201d \u00a0 Let\u2019s just say that the silly string arena was right up Mr. SP\u201ds alley. \u00a0He had the time of his life. After bouncing in the bouncing house, and a quick ride down an inflatable slide, Mr. SP decided that he really wanted to tackle the velcro wall this year. \u00a0I\u2019ve always avoided the velcro wall because there is a very, very long wait in line to wear a velcro suit. \u00a0The velcro wall is an inflatable wall covered with velcro. \u00a0The participants wear a velcro suit and find exciting ways to stick to the wall. \u00a0I decided we might as well give it a try. \u00a0It was a long wait, and I wondered many, many times if two minutes in a velcro suit was worth the long stand in the sprinkling weather as I watched lots of kids bounce around and, well, really not do too much in the velcro suit even though they seemed to have a good time. \u00a0It turns out that it was worth it. Mr. SP donned the velcro suit, and when he was given the go ahead, he turned into Spiderman, climbing up a rope ladder on the side as far as he could go to the very tip top of the wall. \u00a0He rolled out onto the velcro like Superman and stuck there, with the most enormous grin on his face that I\u2019ve quite possibly ever seen. \u00a0Of course he\u2019s so skinny and light that he could have just stuck there all day. \u00a0Apparently the view was nice up there, because he just hung around for a very long time and then had a marvelous jump down onto the bouncy floor. \u00a0He\u2019s still talking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}