Lunch at Chuckie Cheese!

In Kyan's classroom, there is a backpack that rotates around the room between the kids with a Skippyjon Jones book, doll, and journal. When it is the students turn to bring Skippy home, they get to keep him for the night and go on an adventure with him, draw a picture, and write about it in the journal to share with the class the next day. It is fun to read through the stories of other students in his class and what their families do each night - some are as simple as a special family meal together to extra over the top, like riding on an airplane (obviously that kiddo got to keep Skippy on break or a long weekend)! His teacher even took Skippy back to her hometown in Ohio and wrote in the journal too for the kids! The last time we had Skippy, he helped to wiggle Kyan's tooth and wouldn't you know, the next day, it fell out at school (with the help of Mrs. Jones of course)!
I realized Skippy was in Kyan's backpack on Thursday night, when Kyan was already in bed...oops! He did not feel well that day (I sent him to school and I probably shouldn't have) and didn't say a word when he got home from school, I have had an incredibly stressful week at school, and we just had Clifford (same concept as Skippy, but obviously with Clifford the BIG Red Dog) the night before, who went to family night at McDonald's with grandpa and grandma, so it didn't dawn on me that we would have Skippy again so soon!
I talked with Kyan when he woke up on Friday morning about what we should do. He said that we could write about watching Amazing Race as a family, but Skippy didn't really do that with us, so maybe we could ask his teacher to let him keep Skippy just one more day. Great idea! That would give us the weekend to do something special. Turns out Kyan was running another fever and didn't make it to school yesterday as it was, so we worried for a red hot second for nothing! Thank goodness grandparents Nebraska are still in town and didn't have set plans yesterday and they willingly took Kyan to lay around on the couch to snuggle bear and blanket all day! Just what a grandson needs I think!

So today, now that everyone seemed to be doing okay, we headed to Chuckie Cheese, per Kyan's request on Friday. He thought that it would be a good idea to take Skippy there to have a good time (yes, I am sure he really wanted to be the one to go there for the good time, Skippy was just a nice excuse)! Now, I was a little worried about going to Chuckie Cheese on a Saturday, as that is like there busiest day of the week, but it wasn't too bad. We got there before the rush hit, so when it was time to leave, it was super busy, but the kids went through their 50 tokens (really cool, EVERY game/ride was only one token!!!) and they were still smiling! We didn't have to drag them outta there kicking and screaming (think this was a first, it is usually one or the other that is upset), they were so happy! That is a very successful adventure if you ask me!

Lola was obsessed with talking on this phone game to Chuckie! She spent the first 30 minutes glued to it before she ventured out to do anything different! She was even brave enough to pose for a picture with Chuckie when he came around, and that was after the high five and hug (I couldn't get Kyan to go near him, think he was in the gamer zone)!

See his faces? So determined when he is playing games, just like daddy!

Chuckie Cheese = kiddie Vegas!
Today, mine hit the JACKPOT! We had so much fun!