Saturday, February 21, 2009

A Night Out With The Family



Raegan LOVED the buttons that made things make noise, she needed nothing more to entertain her


our little engineer
this picture just makes me laugh, johnny said" well thanks for the warning" when i took it...he looks like he was having fun huh? and the look on Ethan's face, yeah that pretty much showed his mood from there on out!

walking through the link to the hotel

We went to Crown Center on Friday night and took the kids to see the Oz display. They ran around like crazy people for about 45 minutes and then we headed over to Fritz's for dinner. Trey and Avery had both been there before but it was Ethan's first time and he was in awe at how the train brought us our dinner. After dinner we went to a few shops and then went walking. I remember it being so relaxing meandering around crown center other times that we have been down there, boy what a difference it is with 4 crazy kids to try to keep up with. Ethan did not take a nap for me yesterday so he pretty much melted down after dinner and continued to have that melt down the rest of the evening at the slightest thing that didn't go his way. We took them walking across the link to the hotel which they had fun doing but on the way back something set Ethan off ( i think it was when i put him down off my back) and he cried the rest of the way back, to the car, and ALL the way home! Oh and i forgot to mention we rode the escalators about 20 times (you would think we never get out), all i need to do is take the kids to the mall and let them ride escalators and they think they have been taken to an amusement park.

Overall it was a great night minus the "touch that again and..." stop bouncing around and act like normal children"..."if you don't stop crying i'm gonna take you to the bathroom"... "there is a bathroom right there, you want to go in?"... "NO sound affects"..."get off the floor Ethan"..."cmon Raegan, let's go THIS way"..."oh so we are gonna play the go limp game"... I won't even go into the story of the freaky looking guy mumbling under his breath to Johnny as Johnny is carrying the stroller up a few stairs that"that's what elevators are for"...i can't even think about it without laughing! No really it was a fun night :) One i'm sure we will always remember and also will remember Naps are a MUST before another outing like this.

2 comments:

June Duehring said...

Does your family bring out the police and the security guard when you are on the escalators? Ours sure does. It has happened more than once.

Family adventures are so much fun. :0) We always say we will never do it again...but then we do.

Barbie said...

So, you went to the Oz display, too? Where was it? I think it would be neat to see. Val went there recently too. Fritz's is also fun for kids of any age =)