I love my husband and I love that he loves to have fun with the kids but, sometimes I could whack him with a smile! He was always looking for ways to have fun with the kids or something new to try. He didn’t like sitting at the house on the weekend with them, he wanted to be out doing things with them.
We loved MOSI. We always had so much fun when we went, we watched for the different displays and interactive attractions they had. They changed them often enough that there was something new to see or do every couple of weeks during the summer. The dinosaurs were my personal favorite! And the kids really enjoyed the attraction about weather, the earthquake simulation was insane!
We went to the beach as much as we could but once I got pregnant that was not fun for me. It was too hot and I was miserable..my parents lived on a county park and the kids loved the playground. It worked out great for me because I had AC just a couple hundred feet from the playground.
Celebration Station was an all time family favorite!! It was better than Chucky Cheese by far. It had a mini golf course, bumper boats and go-karts. There were so many different arcade games and a climbing ball-pit thing around the whole place. We could drop more money in that place than I could have ever imagined..Those damn tokens got spent so fast.
Now, I have a few weekends that stick with me and always will. The first weekend we went to Celebration Station, the trip to MOSI were the oldest kid kept asking me if I was ok, she swore up and down I was pregnant. Stopped on the way home to get a test and found out I was in fact pregnant with our second baby. The weekend the girls buried their little brother in the sand and sand was in my car for weeks afterwards!
My absolute favorite weekend was the one we told the kids I was pregnant with their baby sister! They knew we were pregnant but didn’t know it was a girl. We waited to tell anyone until we had told them. We didn’t do anything crazy or special. I bought some pink onesies, bows and left them on the couch for them to see when they walked in. The two girls were so excited. However the boy said “On man. I really don’t want another sister” lol. He did love her once she was born!
Now, to the weekend that will absolutely always live in my mind rent free and the middle girl still laughs about it too. We literally talked about this weekend just a couple of weeks ago. Because, my husband was trying to say he didn’t start this, that the oldest kid started it.
We had been at MOSI most of the day checking out the weather attraction. We had a blast and were all starving by the end of the day. I definitely didn’t want to cook after spending the whole day with three kids, a baby and my man child at a museum. We stoped at a sports bar that was a favorite of ours on the way home. Everyone was getting tired and maybe a little loopy. We all ordered, everyone ate and I was packing the baby up in her car seat getting ready to leave. I hear the kids all giggling like crazy….
As I was sitting back up from strapping our daughter into her car seat, out of the side of my eye I see my husband with a fork in his hand with way too much food on it…and he is not taking it to his mouth. He has it aimed across the table at the kids who are giggling so hard and the oldest has her hands up yelling “No, don’t do it”. He doesn’t listen! He hurls it has hard and as fast as he can right into the faces of the kids who are still giggling.
I be damned if this man wasn’t a child himself! Thank God the restaurant was pretty much empty because these Jack wagons are starting a full blown food fight and theres not a damn thing I can do about it except stand there holding our daughter in her car seat and watch this all unfold. Between the giggles and flying food I was giving my husband the look of death! And he knew he was going to be paying for this stunt as soon as the kids passed out in bed. This asshole thought he was hilarious doing this.
NO SHAME at all was detected from any of them as we walked out of the restaurant leaving a $100 tip for the clean up. I wish I could say I was embarrassed but…I wasn’t! This had been my life for the last year and a half, he was always acting like the fifth kid when we had the kids with us. I was use to it. I always knew that at any point he would do something to get the laughs from the kids.
That was at least 19 years ago and we still laugh about it! He tried telling me just a couple weeks ago that the oldest kid had started it, swore up and down she was the first one to sling the fork. I knew he was full of shit and immediately called the middle kid to ask her if she remembered it like he said had happened. She laughed and said “Absolutely not. He definitely started it!”.
He is still like this to this day! Him and our youngest have “The shenanigans” any time we go somewhere, anywhere! I can’t trust them two alone to do the grocery shopping but taking them both with me can turn into a circus! They love to split up and play Marco Polo or “accidentally” drop a box of crackers walking down the isle. They are ridiculous but, they do keep me on my toes and make me laugh!
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