One of the great delights in a getting a hotel room is mixing up our sleeping arrangements. Dave and I each get to cuddle with one of the girls and it's a sweet time. I got Delia on Monterey night and smiled as she rubbed my back while we were falling asleep. During the night she was super restless, though, thrashing around the bed and even yelling out at some points. In the morning I asked her what happened and she told me about her horrible nightmare. "I dreamed the scary Chuck E. Cheese guy was chasing me around!" In my efforts to avoid crappy pizza and money-wasting arcade games, I gave my daughter nightmares. Great. I got the Mom of the Year Award all sewed up!
And in the spirit of keepin' it real, thought I share an honest picture to go with my honest story. In this popular photo spot at the aquarium, Ella is pretending to be a beautiful mermaid while Delia is toooo tired to possibly have ANOTHER picture taken (Guess why she's tired? Yep, because she was too busy being chased by nightmarish Chuck E. Cheese guys to sleep!) Need a new screensaver, Grandpa? :)
3 comments:
Jen- I hated Chuck E Cheese too!Here are some of the prime reasons -
1.Thousands of little kids scurring around like rats released from a cage all at one time and running into my knees.
2.Spending my retirement fund on "food" masquerading as pizza which was little more than wam tomato paste on card board with a photo of cheese on it.
3. Watching the kids dive into a vat of plastic balls, all loaded with germs from the kids with colds whose parents don't know that germs and viruses get transferred that way.
4.Having to stand and watch the kids run around with thousands of tickets to redeem for a penny plastic toy which was promptly lost in our car on the way home causing cascades of tears over the lost prize.
But sometimes it was worth it when I would see my two boys succeeding at playing Skeet ball and getting great joy from that. It is funny how little things that bring joy to your children can over ride your pain of the expierience.
Delia's fear of such things like Chuck E Cheese, is inherited from her dad and he wound up being the Troll at Trinity.
Love Grandpa
Hahaha!!! I love this post -- and that picture! :-) Jen, for my two cents, you ABSOLUTELY deserve that Mom of the Year award, nightmare or no nightmare. You're an amazing mother & that's a fact!
Jen, I'm late to comment here, but I think you ARE an awesome mom, and losing a night's sleep due to nightmares is a small price to pay for avoiding Chuck E. Cheese. ;)
And, yesterday was SO fun with you guys!
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