Family Fun

Let me give you a little background information here. You see there's been a big, big change in our house. Christian doesn't play with trains anymore! Shocking isn't it! I knew it would happen one day and I was so sad when I realized about a month ago that Christian never touched his trains anymore. So I packed them up (we're still keeping them) and we'll get them back out in a couple months, maybe when the weather gets cold and we need something different to play with. Christian even gave up his train table. It now houses McKenna's Dora house and it's in the playroom, not in Christian's room anymore. So what does Christian do with his time these days???

Christian is obssessed with Cars. Lightning McQueen to be exact! He got a Cars Wii game for Christmas and that was it! He plays with Hot Wheels and Disney, Cars all day long. He pretends to have races in his room. He talks about cars all the time and he loves to watch Nascar, which is a little shocking to us since Ryan has never paid attention to it!

So we thought that taking Christian to ride go-karts would be the best surprise ever!

He was delighted for about one minute.


And then this face showed up. And every time he would go around the track he would stop when he got to us and ask us if he could "please, please be done." Huh?? What on earth.

He did NOT like it, which was a little disappointing since I had just paid a bunch of money for him to do this several times. We let him get off and come to find out he was afraid he would hit the side and catch on fire like they do in Nascar. Ummm...no. That's not going to happen, but we couldn't convince him of that.

So he rode on the big track with Daddy! And his smile returned!

Ryan is such a fun dad!

I bought a ticket for McKenna to go in one of those bounce houses and she would have none of it. She just wanted to play on this little playground. So we wasted a lot of money on stuff the kids didn't want to do and the girl at the ticket counter probably got tired of me trying to trade my tickets in for different things that they weren't intended for!

And then Ryan took a spin by himself. Wait a minute...is he by himself?

Nope...he just had a very short passenger who LOVED it! Isn't that hilarious!

And we did get some use out of McKenna's bounce house ticket when it was all said and done.