Monday, April 28, 2014

The Tackiest Birthday We Could Find



Birthday party #2 was on Jack and Sadie's actual birthday, which due to it being the day after Easter and two days after our return from Key West needed to involve essentially no work. The kids have been begging all year to go Chuck E. Cheese's on their birthday so that they could go in the ticket blaster. We couldn't quite succumb to dragging our friends to this place, so J., Pud and I sucked it up and spent the birthday night with the big rat. As you can see, the kids did not have our reservations and yucked it up. Even I got sucked into the gambling nature of the video games and wasted one too many tokens trying to get the "big spin". Let's hope that this does not lead to an adulthood spent in Vegas.

Note: We learned that the "E" in Chucky's name stands for entertainment. Some MBA somewhere is laughing at us for patronizing this place.

6th Birthday!!!




We are finally winding down from the never-ending 6th birthday. We had the third and final birthday party of the season yesterday at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center. The kids had a great time swimming with 20 of their friends when they were not running around screaming their heads off. The lifeguard looked pretty frightened when all 20 kids descended on the pool at once, but no one was kicked out or drowned so it was a success! More photos to come...

PS I love Meghan photo-bombing this family photo. Particularly since she is the most enthusiastic of the bunch!