I've had a lot of friends tell me how much fun the Springdale Aquatic Center is so we finally went and checked it out this weekend. And it was awesome! There are several fenced off sections for various level/age of swimmers. Audrie LOVED the age 0-4 section that was filled with fountains, sprinklers, mist and a shallow wading pool. And I loved that I could sit in the sun (or shade) and just watch her play. They don't let kids over age 4 in that part so I didn't have to worry about her getting knocked over and there were only about 10 kids at any time in her section.
She splashed for hours and had such a great time! There was a lifeguard in her section that kept blowing her whistle and telling Audrie (and the other toddlers) not to run... yeh, right... good luck with that!
Donna was visiting this weekend so she came along to play with Audrie in the water, too.
We went on Saturday afternoon and it wasn't really that crowded.
Naturally with all the fun sprinklers and shooting fountains... Audrie was fascinated most by the drain!
And Jamie's Aunt Barbara was staying with us this weekend too with her two boys.
Michael and Ryan had fun in the other sections of the center that had deep swimming pools, water slides, high dives, etc. This place really is "fun for the whole family" as corny as that sounds!
And you can see in the background here there are large canopies covering different sections so you can be in the shade, too.
Michael and Jamie raced each other, but Michael is on his high school swim team back in Texas so he left Jamie in the dust. 
Anyways, we loved it there and can't wait to go back! And it's only $4 (two dollars for kids under 5). The only bad thing for us is the hours (noon to 7pm) doesn't really work the best for our schedule. But Audrie can skip a few naptimes to go to the pool, right? It's summertime! But in not so fun news... this terrible thing happened right when we arrived! Just as we were putting our stuff down we saw them pulling a little boy out of the water and his face was blue and he was not breathing. I was so freaked out! I just started praying right there that he would be ok. They did CPR on him and he made it, but it was super scary! Here's a news article about it... http://www.4029tv.com/news/19881423/detail.html
After that I didn't take my eyes off Audrie for one second that's for sure!
