The kids have been cooped up for the past 2 days (more or less) so I knew we had to take them out today top burn off some steam. The problem was that the weather today was miserable and we have negged the indoor park for a while after Anya's horrible tantrum last week. So where can we take 2 small children to run around inside for a couple of hours? The answer is Dave and Buster's. And it worked out fabulously! We first went to the arcade and played games (and looked at the bright lights) for a while, then hit the restaurant. Our timing was spot on.... we had no wait at all,but shortly after we had ordered, ALL of the tables filled up.
Moments after sitting down, Baz started his usual antics- running around and doing anything but sitting. After 4 years of parenting, I finally came up with a great restaurant activity. They have these giant paper cups to hold your tickets, so I dumped out our tickets and had George empty his pockets. Our newly made up game of "Put the change in the cup" kept Baz happy for quite a while. When he tired of that, we played "put the sugar packets in the cup"...I added some sound effects and it kept him busy until the food came! Forget the crayons and DVD players, etc.... we'll be sticking with "move a bunch of small objects into a container" game from now on!!!
All of us ate together (in fact, Baz took the longest to finish eating) and we headed back to the arcade to finish off our tokens. I'm still amazed at how great a time we all had and how pleasant the kids were. It really helps me to see what the post-infant and toddler times will be like and look forward to having kids that we can relate to. Not that I'm wishing away the baby time- that has its own joys- but there are definitely lots of fun times to come!
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:) Anything to keep them happy, right?
You guys had that hurricane, right? It was a beautiful (but a bit chilly) here yesterday. Glad you made the best of it!
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