Celebrating Munchkin Birthdays

Today I took Spidey, the Jock, Ranger and the Princess to Amazing Jakes. Each year I take them for an outing to celebrate their birthday and this year they wanted to go to Amazing Jake's so we did a combined day celebrating 2 late and 2 early birthdays. Thank goodness Kris agreed to go too, otherwise I would have been outnumbered. I like to make sure each kid has a hand to hold on to. After having lunch consisting of mac n' cheese and pizza while watching Shrek II in the movie room, we headed out for fun on the rides.

Spidey was mostly interested in playing skee ball so he could get lots of tickets. I must say he was a little disappointed when I told him all the tickets were being pooled together and they would split them equally. I will never understand why kids go crazy for the little junk toys they get from these places. He did enjoy being the master spinner on the teacups keeping the others laughing the entire time.

The Jock liked playing all the games, even the ones that did not give tickets. He was not so daring on the rides. He liked the train ride and the teacups was about as wild as he would get. From the smile on his face, something tells me he will be riding Harley's with his Uncle Shaun when he gets older.

The Princess was a wild woman, riding the roller coaster which went forwards and backwards and was surprisingly fast. She convinced both Kris and I to take her on this ride. She started off slow with the merry-go-round and quickly advanced to "look no hands" on the coaster.

The real daredevil of the group was Ranger. He tried everything from the merry-go-round to the teacups, to the frogger and roller coaster to laser tag and rock climbing. He was going to get in every possible thing he could.

At the end of the day we had ice cream cones, cashed in our tickets and everyone went home happy. As they were wishing they had a birthday every weekend, I was happy they only happen once a year.