Fun Times!!!

Yesterday we went to Austin Parks and Pizza for our cousin Cierra's birthday. If you've never been here it's actually a pretty awesome place. There are arcade games some of which are free and a pizza, salad, and pasta buffet not to mention fun stuff outside such as batting cages, putt-putt golf, and go-carts among other things. It was Trio's first time doing something like this so needless to say he was overwhelmed by the arcade games. He just kept running around looking at all the lights and listening to the noises. He even "played" a couple of games like knocking over ducks and stepping on spiders (Mama helped but only a little).

There were a couple of truly hilarious moments. I put him on the roller coaster ride you know the ones that are like virtual rides. Man the minute that puppy popped up and started shaking he turned with his arms out like "I don't think so". I tried to get him to try it again but he was not having it. At skee ball he started to climb up on the machine I guess to go up there and dump the balls in there. He had a blast just rolling the ball up and down the ramp cackling all the time. We had a little problem with him trying to take the balls from other kids but we worked through that relatively quick.

He also liked a racing Nick 'toons game. I let him steer and just put the gas on and he kept laughing because all he was doing was crashing into a wall backwards and forwards. He loved it!! All I could do was smile at him while he is crashing poor Ipkiss from "Ahh!! Real Monsters" into a wall.

We did have a couple of almost meltdowns and accidents. He almost got his hand hurt putting it on another interactive skateboard game. He wanted to climb the rock wall and wanted to get on the drop ride (you know one of those rides that picks you up and drops you). And then we finally had to have a wrassle because I was like "Mommy's tired of walking around let's go sit". He was sad and pouty until he got a cupcake and then everything was fine again of course.

Watching him yesterday made me realize something. In my last blog I bemoaned that the whole baby phase was almost over especially with him having eczema and having to change everything in his life. But I realized that now we're at the age where we can play together in venues like this; parks are going to start being more fun so if/when we get our car up and running I can take him to places. There is a Halloween festival later on that I am really excited to take him to. I missed our Mommy club outing to the Elgin for a Pumpkin Festival but maybe that is also something I can do with just him and me one day. We will have more interactive play now.

So while I still miss the smell of baby I am very happy that we're at this new part in our life. I am very excited to see how it works.

Obviously however I need to start being more energetic because we're going to be moving a lot in the future.