Father's Day 2012

I had a lot of plans for what I was going to cook and things we could do at the house to celebrate Father's day and then all three of us became sick. No one felt like going to the grocery store so we've lived off of chicken noodle soup and whatever else we have had on hand for the last few days.We pretty much ran out of a lot of things so my Father's day plans for Garrett went out the window.

Since we are still contagious we didn't think Church would be a good idea but we were already up and awake and getting cabin fever so we decided to do something special and go out for breakfast. We figured the McDonald's play-place would be pretty deserted early on a Sunday morning and we were right. It was fantastic! We had the place to ourselves. It was relaxing and allowed Ethan to run some energy out. (How kids can still have energy when they don't feel well I'll never know).

Once Garrett saw the sign that said parents were welcome to play he couldn't resist. Ethan loved it!

 

And Garrett loved it too, although he got pretty winded climbing around with Ethan. (He blames it on feeling under the weather) At any rate, he had so much fun playing! He's such a good daddy. :-)

Of course another great aspect of having the place to ourselves was that when Garrett tired from playing were were able to sit back and watch Ethan play without having to worry about other kids.

When we got back to the house we gave Garrett his Father's Day present. He was in need of a new wallet and I found a handy groupon for a company called "Big Skinny". They advertise that their wallets are 3-5 times skinnier than your average wallet so I had to check it out.

Before/After comparison shot of Garrett's old wallet to his new wallet. The contents are exactly the same as before but it is indeed much skinnier! Garrett said it was way more comfortable to sit on.

When Ethan woke up from his nap he was cranky and wanting to watch cartoons, so we decided to do something new and take him to the dollar movie for our first movie outing as a family. We saw The Lorax (or at least most of it) and Ethan did better than we expected! He was in awe of the big screen and proudly sat in his chair between Mama and Dada. We bought a small popcorn which he clutched tightly between his little legs and held onto for dear life. He looked so little in the theater seat yet he acted so big munching on popcorn and reaching up into the cup holder for his straw-sippy full of water as if he's done it all a million times before. It wasn't until after we left that we saw that they had booster seats for kids his age. Whoops! That would have made things easier. At one point Ethan was saying "help!" and we turned to see his seat about to swallow him as the folding seat pitched upward sending his knees towards his shoulders!

 It was super cute. And yes, we did help him. :-) After the movie we decided to make a quick detour to the mall play-place to let Ethan run some energy out from sitting in the theater. The play-place was crazy crowded so we decided it was a bad idea and instead let him play on the riding toys near the entrance. Neither of us had any quarters on us but Ethan didn't mind. I'm pretty sure he has no idea that they are supposed to move. We told him that the speed boat was a rocket and he fell in love. He kept talking about rockets the entire time and didn't want to get out. At this point we realized that he was actually over-tired and that it was time to get him home. Once home he went down an hour early for bedtime. We all felt pretty worn out but we are so glad that we got out of the house and made some new memories! Despite feeling under the weather, it was a really fun day!