So this morning Maddy and I went to Chuck-e-cheese and met Nate and Hailey there! She really did have a blast. It surprises me how quickly she can go through 30 tokens! We were there for an hour and fifteen minutes. She's really great though about knowing that when the tokens run out it's time to go. She never throws a fit. It's nice. What I love about our CEC is that it's never really crowded! Today was the most crowded because it looked like a little boy was hosting his birthday party there. But even then there was more than enough room for everyone. I would never go on a weekend (unless to a birthday party of course) when I can go on the week days. It's also nice that I haven't associated CEC with eating there yet. Maddy has an attention span of a normal 2 year old and really, I don't think I could hold her attention the food we'd get there while there are so many fun games to play and toys to ride. She does sit down and have a snack that I bring with me with her water bottle, but other than that, it's a place to PLAY not a place to EAT.
So we took our picture today as you can see from above. Not bad for .10! :) But it bugs me that they have a screen where the kids can see themselves above where the camera actually is so they look at the screen and not at the camera. Actually, it's hard for me to focus on the camera too when the screen is right there! Hence the picture above. Boy doesn't she look grown up though?
After CEC Maddy and I stopped at MacD's right around the corner and bought her a chicken nugget happy meal to take home. She did pretty well on it. I did buy her a vanilla shake and she drank the whole thing! I couldn't believe it! Then she was begging for some of my tea out of my new teapot (tea pot for 1 really) and I gave her some. It's honey white chai tea. What I didn't realize that it also had BLACK tea in it, too. White tea has some, but very little caffeine but the black tea is what's strong. Ooops! But she loves tea and she especially loves it when I pour real tea for her into one of her plastic tea cups out of a real tea pot! This is a great tea pot because it keeps the tea nice and hot, but allows me to drink it a bit at a time without needing to make more.
Maddy had a very hard time going down for a nap today. She literally fell asleep at 2:25. She was wide awake for an hour talking. Then she finally called to me and I rocked her for about five minutes. But she was still wide awake for another 15 more jumping in her bed so when she called to me again, I basically resigned myself to rocking her to sleep and staying there with her (afterall, I was the one to give her black tea before nap!). But after she was asleep for a few minutes I did put her down to sleep and she is still out. Now I don't know what to do about wakeup time! She normally goes down for a nap at 1!
I'm excited for tonight. I'm getting out with the girls for coffee night. It's nice that it's something very simple and very come as you are and nothing too formal or crazy. We just sit around and gab! I'll bring my own tea since their hot tea selection is pretty bad. Now, their boxed tea selection is amazing, so I'll just bring some of my own prepared from home. Then on Friday I'm going with the girls down to a club. One woman's husband is in a band, so they are playing that night and she wants to go down to see them but wants to go with friends, so I'll be going to that. Thanks again to Matt who when I ask about this stuff says, "You have the opportunity! Take it! Go and have fun!"
Well, that's about it here. I hope everyone has a great rest of the day! I'm off to finish my tea and get a few things done around here.
Tea of the day: Little tea pot with two bags of Celestial Seasonings White Honey Chai and a bag of W Cinnamon Herbal tea mixed in, too. Going to have some herbal now.. probably will mix two bags of Ginseng with a Mint Medley Tea bag.