Zoo and Chuck E. Cheese

Okay, so we never did take the cable box back (big shock there). We’ve had the thing for over 3 months now and it has never worked. Dickens looks great fresh from the groomers. He has even managed to stay looking exactly as we picked him up - for now anyway.

We had a great time with K yesterday. We picked him up from their house and took him to McDonald’s for breakfast. He had pancakes and sausage (okay 1 ½ pancakes and only ½ the sausage). He goofed around the whole time. From there, we went to the zoo. We walked around looking at all the animals for a total of 2 hours. There were probably 4 places along the path where you could sit on a bench and take a break. K wanted to stop at EVERY one of them. We did. Sometimes I forget that he’s only 4 ½. I was reminded of that yesterday (in a good way). We didn’t see the elephant or the giraffe. They were in a different part of the zoo and it was a long walk uphill to get to them. By that time, K was done. He wanted to play on the “big toy” at the zoo (the big playground they have there). He played there for about 30 minutes. He really surprised me. He went down a huge slide by himself. No joke, the thing was 3-4 stories high. I was really worried that he would freak out part way down, but he didn’t. He didn’t even want his “Kuncle” to go with him. He wanted to do it by himself. I met him at the bottom. It was great. He climbed and ran through everything. We asked him if he wanted to leave and go to Chuck E. Cheese, but he kept saying “not yet.” It was cute. Before leaving the zoo, he wanted to look through the store. He didn't want to take anything home, but he sure did have a good time playing with everything while we were there. I'm glad no one but the workers were in the store because he got loud and ran all over the place. :-)

After the zoo, we went to Chuck E. Cheese. I had a coupon where you buy 40 tokens for $10 and get 60 tokens FREE. That’s 100 tokens for just $10! We couldn’t pass that up. On top of that, we got 25 tokens with our meal, so we had 125 tokens to play with. Needless to say, we were there for about 2 hours. K had a great time. He only ate 1 piece of pizza because he wanted to go play and we wouldn’t let him until he ate one piece. He laughed, yelled, and had a great time. We bought him a tool set at Chuck E. Cheese. That was the only thing he wanted. We had over 400 tickets, but he didn’t want to trade them in for anything. He just wanted the tool kit. It’s hard to make a 4 year old understand that the items not in the case had to be paid for so, of course, we bought it for him. :-)

As we were taking him home, he fell asleep in the car. He was holding the tool kit upright on his lap by the handle. At one point, he fell asleep and the tool kit fell flat on his lap. Not only did he jump, but I did, too. All in all, it was one GREAT weekend with the little guy. I’m glad he’s finally letting us take him someplace without his dad.

H and I would love to take him to a toy store on his birthday and let him pick out his own toy as well as take him to breakfast and lunch that day. He’ll be 5 at his next birthday; maybe he’ll still be fine going with us by then.

Until later...