"The place where a kid can be a kid"
Ain't that the truth! We went there yesterday to get the kids (and ourselves) out of the house. Sean started early searching for things to do indoors to get out of here for a bit. He first checked the movie schedules in Annapolis, we took the kids to see Alvin and the Chipmunks last Monday and they enjoyed it. No luck. Then he suggested Chuck E. Cheese. So we figured what the heck?!
The place was pretty empty, which was cool. When you arrive at Chuck E. Cheese they give each person in your party a unique stamp that consists of one letter and two numbers. It's placed on your wrist in a sort of black light ink. A child CANNOT leave Chuck E. Cheese with an adult unless their stamp matches. Pretty clever way of being secure in my opinion.
Well as soon as we made it through the rope the kids were off and running... WOW WOW WOW! They didn't even have any tokens yet and they were still psyched! Sean chased them while I got the pizza ordered and picked up some tokens. We got 60 tokens (that lasted about 2 hours) and the kids played stinkin roller ball pretty much the whole time. It's that game where you roll the ball up the little slope and it's supposed to go into the little hole. Once Sean showed Aidan how to roll the ball he was good... he even got it in the 10,000 point hole a couple of times. Clare on the other hand - whole different story. She was like gutter bowling that thing. I'm surprised she didn't take out some other kid. She was straight up chucking the ball all over the place. It was pretty funny. Then she got the hang of the "rolling" thing and the furthest she could get it was in the bottom part that awarded NO points. She didn't care she'd simply yell... I got it in!
Let me just say that both the kids and the parents enjoyed Chuck E. Cheese. We'll definitely go back there. It costs about the same as taking them to a restaurant for lunch but we actually get our money's worth there!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Slacker Mom
Blizzard 2010 - 2 feet of snow!
Forecast for tonight 6" - 10" more.
According to the farmers almanac another monster storm for this weekend.
AND I have NO CAMERA! I guess this is another moment in Aidan and Clare's lives we'll just have to tell them about and show them pics from other people. Man, I hope they have good memories!!
Forecast for tonight 6" - 10" more.
According to the farmers almanac another monster storm for this weekend.
AND I have NO CAMERA! I guess this is another moment in Aidan and Clare's lives we'll just have to tell them about and show them pics from other people. Man, I hope they have good memories!!
Add this to the list...
When it snows everyone panics and floods the grocery stores. It happened here last Thursday and Friday, it's happening again today because it's supposed to snow again tonight.
Many people's lists consist of bread, milk, and toilet paper. Ours consists of those 3 things and much more - snacks, apple juice, hot dogs, frozen pizza, actually, anything frozen that's not healthy for you, dessert stuff, and beer, beer, beer! I don't usually panic about the food stuff except for the milk, chocolate syrup and apple juice because those are the only things the kids drink. I always figure we'll get to the store the day after the storm and pick up the other stuff.
For this recent storm(s) we were very prepared. I went to the store early and avoided the lines so we had it all. But on Friday afternoon I was taking the trash out and thought, "Wait, do we have enough trash bags????" I usually buy those in bulk so I don't notice I'm low until it's almost too late. Lucky for us we had a whole roll cause we have had lots of trash this weekend.
Many people's lists consist of bread, milk, and toilet paper. Ours consists of those 3 things and much more - snacks, apple juice, hot dogs, frozen pizza, actually, anything frozen that's not healthy for you, dessert stuff, and beer, beer, beer! I don't usually panic about the food stuff except for the milk, chocolate syrup and apple juice because those are the only things the kids drink. I always figure we'll get to the store the day after the storm and pick up the other stuff.
For this recent storm(s) we were very prepared. I went to the store early and avoided the lines so we had it all. But on Friday afternoon I was taking the trash out and thought, "Wait, do we have enough trash bags????" I usually buy those in bulk so I don't notice I'm low until it's almost too late. Lucky for us we had a whole roll cause we have had lots of trash this weekend.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Snowpocalypse
Well, well, well... it's SNOWING! The first flakes we saw were in Huntingtown at 10:00am yesterday. Right now it's 3:03 and we've got about 2 feet and it's not supposed to stop until 10:00 tonight. WHOA!!!
Last night we went over to the Cook's house for a pizza/blizzard kick-off party. Tons of fun. The kids ran around like maniacs and the adults enjoyed the snow and beer!
We woke up at 7:00 this morning. I went to the back door and put on some boots to go out and shovel a path for Saddie. I did, but she would not go pee! I finally decided to put her leash on and basically pull her through the foot and a half of snow to the plowed road to get her biz done. Once we got out there and walked down the road a little, I noticed that my neighbors carport collapsed on all 3 of their vehicles. YIKES!!!! There are several large tree limbs down on my other neighbors property. Our pool cover is full of snow, let's hope it doesn't collapse in. We have a 3 foot high fence around the pool and there's a little less than a foot still visible.
I started shovelling the driveway and then Sean finished... he did most of it! Then we ate a yummo breakfast and he headed down to our friends Mark and Ann's house. Mark is out of town working at the superbowl and Ann and her doggies are home alone. Is he a great guy/friend or what?! Thank God we bought the pathfinder last weekend with 4 wheel drive! We've already used it 3 times since then!
When Sean left I got the kids in the bath. To make it more fun and snow dayish we put blue and green food coloring in the water, tons of bubble bath and I blew bubbles at them. It was great, they soaked the bathroom, spatted all the bubbles, and were slipping and sliding when the water drained out. Everyone got dressed and watched some tv.
Sean called me from his adventure to report that Ann was okay and that he and Joe found a bar open... only those 2 would find an open bar in a blizzard! So now I've got a yummy ruben sandwich heating up in the oven to chow down on after I post this. YUMMO YUMMO!!!!
Needless to say, we Healey's are prepared (for once in our lives) and LOVIN this Blizzard of 2010! It's awesome! I mean come on, this stuff doesn't happen everyday. People need to stop panicking and just enjoy this beautiful, enormous snow storm! It'll melt at some point before Clare turns 3 - on July 11th! : )
Last night we went over to the Cook's house for a pizza/blizzard kick-off party. Tons of fun. The kids ran around like maniacs and the adults enjoyed the snow and beer!
We woke up at 7:00 this morning. I went to the back door and put on some boots to go out and shovel a path for Saddie. I did, but she would not go pee! I finally decided to put her leash on and basically pull her through the foot and a half of snow to the plowed road to get her biz done. Once we got out there and walked down the road a little, I noticed that my neighbors carport collapsed on all 3 of their vehicles. YIKES!!!! There are several large tree limbs down on my other neighbors property. Our pool cover is full of snow, let's hope it doesn't collapse in. We have a 3 foot high fence around the pool and there's a little less than a foot still visible.
I started shovelling the driveway and then Sean finished... he did most of it! Then we ate a yummo breakfast and he headed down to our friends Mark and Ann's house. Mark is out of town working at the superbowl and Ann and her doggies are home alone. Is he a great guy/friend or what?! Thank God we bought the pathfinder last weekend with 4 wheel drive! We've already used it 3 times since then!
When Sean left I got the kids in the bath. To make it more fun and snow dayish we put blue and green food coloring in the water, tons of bubble bath and I blew bubbles at them. It was great, they soaked the bathroom, spatted all the bubbles, and were slipping and sliding when the water drained out. Everyone got dressed and watched some tv.
Sean called me from his adventure to report that Ann was okay and that he and Joe found a bar open... only those 2 would find an open bar in a blizzard! So now I've got a yummy ruben sandwich heating up in the oven to chow down on after I post this. YUMMO YUMMO!!!!
Needless to say, we Healey's are prepared (for once in our lives) and LOVIN this Blizzard of 2010! It's awesome! I mean come on, this stuff doesn't happen everyday. People need to stop panicking and just enjoy this beautiful, enormous snow storm! It'll melt at some point before Clare turns 3 - on July 11th! : )
Friday, February 5, 2010
"snow" innocent
Today at work we only had 7 kids in my class. They were like a silent movie, instead of their usual insanity they were all just chill. When it started snowing around 10:00 none of the kids noticed. They were too busy playing. So I whispered to one little girl... "Look Juli it's snowing, tell all your friends!" She looks up in wonderment and steps away from the table to the middle of the room and announces... "Look guys it's snowing!" All 7 kids dash to the windows to stare at the snow. Each of them making an "ooou" or "aah" noise. How awesome! Most of the adults in Maryland (which I'm starting to believe is a state of snow HATERS) are cursing the snow but the kids are thrilled!
Gaga ou la la
Here's a little conversation I had with Aidan the other morning in the car:
"Mom, can you turn on the radio?"
"Sure." I turn on the radio.
"Mom, do you know Wady Gaga?"
"Uh yeah Aidan I know who Lady Gaga is... how do you know who Lady Gaga is?"
"Regan wikes Wady Gaga, she showed me who she was on tv resterday."
"Oh, that's cool."
"So can you turn on a Wady Gaga song?"
WHAT? Hilarious... Aidan (and now Clare) requesting Lady (or Wady) Gaga.
"Mom, can you turn on the radio?"
"Sure." I turn on the radio.
"Mom, do you know Wady Gaga?"
"Uh yeah Aidan I know who Lady Gaga is... how do you know who Lady Gaga is?"
"Regan wikes Wady Gaga, she showed me who she was on tv resterday."
"Oh, that's cool."
"So can you turn on a Wady Gaga song?"
WHAT? Hilarious... Aidan (and now Clare) requesting Lady (or Wady) Gaga.
February Promise
Let me take a moment to reflect on my January Promise: WALK SADDIE. Well I did walk Saddie throughout the month of January and while I did break my promise to myself in that I didn't walk her everyday. I did come pretty darn close though. I only missed 5 out of 31 days. All in all I'm pretty happy with the end result.
As for February, I'm going to finish what I started... a book given to me several months ago by my friend Jen. It's titled Eat, Pray, Love. I started the book while we were up in the mountains for Thanksgiving and have read a few pages here and there. So this month I'm going to FINISH reading it. It's a really good book, I just never seem to block off the time to read it. I'm really excited!
As for February, I'm going to finish what I started... a book given to me several months ago by my friend Jen. It's titled Eat, Pray, Love. I started the book while we were up in the mountains for Thanksgiving and have read a few pages here and there. So this month I'm going to FINISH reading it. It's a really good book, I just never seem to block off the time to read it. I'm really excited!
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