kid time

the past 5 weeks we've spent a lot of time away from the kids. or what time we have been here has been spent catching up on house stuff. so we figured the kids needed a fun weekend just about them.

if you're 5, 3 or 1 where do you look for fun? well, the trampoline outside is covered in snow...so chuck e cheese is the obvious answer! then it was off to a hotel for pool time (ok, that didn't work too well...a hotel full of traveling teenage hockey teams and cheerleaders in town for a competition...coincidence? well the pool was more than a little busy at night, but at 8:30am it was perfect!)

ryan decided the hotel was just way, way too fun and he needed to stay up till 5am. wow, that was so much fun.

then we were off to ihop for the much advertised "horton hears a who" kids breakfast. as we pulled into the parking lot olivia said "mom, i can't really say IHOP, so i'm just going to call this place HORTON HEARS A WHO." ok, that makes sense. but with a 30 minute wait and 3 hungry kids it was off to perkins for pancakes with ketchup for ryan and large plates of bacon for the other kids.

the next stop on the fun train was the mall to figure out shoes sizes. ok, ok, that wasn't the kids' idea of fun...until the lady at track & trail let them scan our order. now that was cool. and we learned ryan's feet were 2 sizes bigger than we thought. who knew?

our next destination was the hospital to see josie then on to the childrens' museum. but let's remember the 1yr old was up till 5am...so you can guess how he was doing at that point. so the revised plan sent us home and then back to visit josie on sunday. the kids loved seeing her with out all her tubes. plus they brought tons of "art work" to decorate her crib.

so all in all, our weekend was a success. the kids had fun and so did we :)