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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

"Oh What Do You Do In The Winter Time, When All The World Is FREEZING..."

Well, my life long dream of riding one of Santa's Special Holiday Camels didn't come true. But I did climb up on a mechanical horsey ride at Chuck E Cheese. No need to compliment my facial expressions...I am well aware of how lovely I look in these pictures. Q kept her game face on the whole time and didn't look away from the screen.
"Ok Quincy, here we go on the horsey...are you ready?"

Ok, it was a little more wild than I expected it to be. It didn't help that Quincy would push the "jump" button unexpectedly and jerk us into the air. Check out the zombie faces on the two little boys in the background. I gotta get me one of those rides for our living room.
Going to Chuck E Cheese is probably number 3 on the list of Top Ten Things Parents Endure Because They Love Their Children. Number 1 is obviously pregnancy/ childbirth, and Number 2 is changing poopie diapers and cleaning up vomit.


Reese gives the race horse a go. I am incredibly grateful that she chooses the rides, rather than climbing through the hamster-like maze, shown in the picture above her. You know, the tube shaped playground thing that usually has a sweaty kid pressed up against the plexiglas window wiping snot all over it?


How cute is the tiny carousel? It doesn't even come to a complete stop before Quin starts requesting "Mommy, again horsey again. I want again horsey. Monies mommy...pweeeeease?"


Hey...wait a minute...where is Daddy? And where are all the game tokens for the kids?

Busted!
This game brings back memories of our singles ward in Utah, and playing this game in Bishop Johnson's basement when we were dating.

Oh look, he found another one. This one is called Street Hoops and has flashing lights and the basket moves from side to side to distract you.
Just like the courts in da hood.
Here comes "Mack N Cheese"-as my kids call him, straight from the germ infested Rat's Nest Party area and headed straight for our table. Reese climbed down off the horse ride and ran for it, faster than I thought humanly possible.
"That's my girl...you don't let him touch you, Reese. That Chuck E is all hands..."

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, just wait! Next to labor and delivery the toughest thing you'll do for you kids is teach them to drive! But not to worry, you still have plenty of time to gear up for that.

Anonymous said...

dude, chuck-e-cheese is so gross. took the kids there once to a birthday party. vowed to never go again. you are brave my friend.

Anonymous said...

Looking at that last picture, I see that you were right. Aaron really DID need a haircut badly enough to ask you to do it at 1 am!

(please tell me these pictures were taken a week ago BEFORE you gave him a haircut!)

Anonymous said...

yeah they are from last weekend. I got busy with birthdays and didn't post.

Anonymous said...

You might wanna be careful...the "ho-hees" have been known to cause premature labor....oh no, wait - that's not the horse - that's simply being in the presence of the rat bastard, chuck E. cheese. Does Kasey know you've been there? If she wont let "flu-shotless" people around her- I doubt she will want someone who has just been wading in the NWA cesspool. Hopefully sitting in that nasty saddle wont make your baby come out with "Skoal" in his umbilical cord.

Anonymous said...

you get mom of the year for going to that crack den of germs and snot rockets.

Anonymous said...

LOL at Sarah's comment. She makes a good point...are you still contagious? Oh wait, it's been 10 days, so we're probably okay to hang out again!