A night on the town

Jason wanted to be a rebel against a bank account with no money and decided to take the family out for a family evening. We ate Chinese for dinner. Emma made us laugh as usual while eating out. This time we were sitting by a window and Emma was insistent on eating and drinking using the window sill as her table. On top of that her bendy straw was malfunctioning and was bending in three different places. Her head was following the straw as it bent as she drank and sometimes it was too bent to get a drink. But, she's not one to take defeat. She tried so hard to get a good drink. Finally, after we had our laughs we gave her a new straw.

After dinner, we headed to Emma's first theatre movie. We watched Judy Moody's not so bummer summer. Emma sat very still and quiet, honestly interested in the movie for about half of it and then she got up and ran up and down the isle we were sitting in. It was ok because we were the only ones in the theatre besides a group of teenage girls who were clearly not interested in paying attention to the movie considering we had occasional coins flying over our heads from behind us. Even though she was running around, she was still quiet and Jason and I were able to enjoy the movie for ourselves. I'm sure it helped that we kept stuffing licorice in her mouth. At the end of the movie, Emma wanted to dance to the credit music so we went to the front and holding hands we all danced together until the cleaning lady came in. Kid's innocent nature encourages adults to have more fun. And plus we can get away with it since we have a toddler to blame our silly ways on.

The theatre is in the mall. Jason had a gift card to sears so we walked down there after the movie. Because it was later, the mall was basically empty, so Emma was free to run like a crazy kid in the mall. We even had to do a slight jog to keep up until she suddenly stopped in front of Chucky Cheese to check out the mural on the wall of all the chucky cheese characters. She gets distracted so easily.

Jason tried on and bought 4 pairs of new jeans to go with his new cowboy ensemble. I'm glad he got into the style. I can tell he regrets putting off the switch for so long. He thoroughly enjoys being a cowboy and really enjoys his new wardrobe. Emma also snuck in a pair of shiny, pink platform sandals. She's such a shoe girl (after my own heart).

Icecream followed the mall. Jack in the box did not have cones so we backed out of the drive through and swung into McDonalds. After pulling half way into the drive through, I decided I needed to go to the bathroom, so Jason backed out of the drive through again, throwing off some old people backing out of their parking space in their fancy lincoln. We went back and forth playing the who goes first game and finally we parked and went in. Emma was attracted to the slides right away. She did not even want to eat her ice cream, she was having so much fun in the tubes and slides. We knew it was ready to go when she started crying somewhere in the maze of tubes. She was lost and couldn't find her way back. Then when she did follow the sultry sound of our voices and found the entrance she couldn't figure out how to get down the spiral stair case back to the floor and Jason had to go up there and help her get down.

We spent money we didn't have, but we had fun and it was a great family outing!