Our family was invited out last week for an impromptu birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese last week. Alex was turning 5, but he wasn’t interested in the monster-themed birthday party his mother planned especially if it meant inviting lots of kids. Apparently, all of Alex’s friends moved away from him this summer, and the only kids left that he can tolerate are Annie and Mimi (well, actually just Annie, but we won’t tell Mimi that). The girls were beyond excited to go. Mike was not thrilled to be spending time at a establishment where they “manufacture fun”. I told him that he didn’t have his fun manufactured, and he could sit there like a stick in the mud. However, Mike changed his tune as I caught him playing multiple games with the children’s tokens. By the end of the night he was begging for more tokens to play games. I think we discovered a closet Chuck-E-Cheese afficionado. The next day the girls were planning their Chuck-E-Cheese birthday parties. I told them they’ll have to talk to their father about that.

The girls had a blast dancing in front of the blue screen and seeing themselves on t.v.

Mimi loved this horse. I think she used at least 1/2 of her tokens riding it.

Chuck-E-Cheese made his appearance, and all the kids made a bee-line to meet him up close and personal.

Violet was such a good sport spending much of the night in her car seat. Mike and I took turns carrying her around while games were being played, and she fell asleep in my arms.

See, I told you Mike had a good time.

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