Chocolatespoon: Emily’s Musings

Just got this announcement by email:
Come downtown to see What’s Up Doc!
You are invited to the only Northern California exhibit of world renowned animator Chuck Jones’ artwork.
The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity has generously agreed to bring this exhibit to downtown Morgan Hill for this exclusive showing.
Now through August 20th at 17380 Monterey Rd.
For more [...]

It’s hard to believe that this is the first time I’ve taken Clara to play at the playground behind the library given how much time we spend at the library, but we finally checked it out as part of our playground explorations (Clara had been before during Puzzle Day weekend while I was busy).  It’s [...]

Clara and I tested out Diana Park yesterday.  We had been there before for a playdate with our Mom’s group, but hadn’t really checked out the playground.  Most of the grassy area was being torn up for some construction, but Clara enjoyed climbing up the stairs and going down the slide in the tot area [...]

After our Passover Storytime at Booksmart, we went out for coffee with Suzanne, Mike and Elise and then walked over across the street to Nordstrom Park.  It’s another great playground with separate areas for 2-5 yr old kids and 5+ year olds (and has the added benefit of being across the street from not only [...]

Another playground for our list, and probably my favorite so far, was Paradise Park. It’s only a couple of minutes from our house. We used to ride our bikes there and then pick up the path that follows the creek but hadn’t tried out the playground with Clara before. She had a [...]

Located right next to Jackson Elementary School (which also had a playground that we tried out), Jackson Park (on Trail Drive) is another of Morgan Hill city parks with a nice playground.
Clara liked the tic tac toe game:

And the slides had cool bumps in them

After seeing the cool playground finder/review site at http://playspacefinder.kaboom.org, I resolved to go try out some new playgrounds (especially because Clara loves slides and things these days.)   Today we went to try out the playground at the Morgan Hill Community Park.  There’s a special area for 2-5 year olds separate from the bigger kid playground [...]