Together Again!

Saturday morning had Dalton up at 3 or 4 to nurse. Which I did. Gladly. Then he went back to sleep. We had decided after we got in so late Friday night that we'd be skipping the 8:00 soccer game in the morning. Easton woke up calling for me around 7:30. It was great to see him. Little Bublet wasn't too far behind.

We all cuddled in the big bed awhile before heading down to make pancakes. Easton asked for Batman pancakes. I told him I didn't know how to make those but he was pretty insistent and I hadn't seen him in awhile so I added spikey bat ears to his circle pancake and attempted to make Batman's mask out of chocolate chips "remember to leave holes for his eyes!"

It was good enough for E!


Dalton had some pancake but overall that boy has not been eating well at all since we've been back. He only wants Lil Crunchies which I refuse to give him for every meal. I'm only nursing him once in the middle of the night and that's been it. He's not too happy with the arrangement but I know he'll get over it eventually. I feel bad. But I don't think starting back to 4-5 times a day best at this point, either. So, he's stuck with his sippy:


After breakfast we told the boys we brought them some surprises. They were excited to see what I pulled from the suitcase:


We didn't go overboard with souvenirs because they don't care about having something from Vegas and we'd left them a present a day while we were gone. So, these M&M t-shirts were more for us and how cute we thought they'd look in them:


We did pick out a little something for each boy from Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay...a squeaky shark for the bath for D and some sea creatures to paint for E:






This is around when Dalton was wearing the bag and saying, "Ta da!"


The boys had some quiet time later on and afterwards we went to Casa Bonita for dinner so the boys could feel like they got to celebrate my birthday with me too. We took E to Casa Bonita for his birthday and we have not talked about it or looked at any pictures or anything since then, but he remembered all of it. And he remembered not liking it much. When we told him we were going Saturday he was saying how he wanted to just stay home and play with his kitty. He did not want to go. We told him too bad since it was for my birthday but if he didn't like it again we wouldn't go back for a long long time. He was insistent that no one sing anything to use, "Because they're not nice." He did not like when they sang him "Happy Birthday" all mariachi style in January, poor fella.

So we got there and posed our M&M's in front of the fountain outside:




Up until January I thought Casa Bonita was just a local thing...not a chain. But then AJ left me a comment about "I haven't been to a Casa Bonita in ages" and I had to look into it...apparenlty, yeah...there used to be a few other restaurants, all in places near AJ: Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Little Rock (and then one somewhere in Texas). But wow. Right now the Colorado one is the only one still open. However it appears the Tulsa one will be re-opening very soon. For those of you that care. And if you watch South Park at all they featured our Casa Bonita on it once which I thought was probably the funniest episode I ever saw, only because I grew up going to Casa Bonita like Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny... the Casa Bonita they drew for South Park is almost an exact representation of where we went Saturday.

Anyhoo...

The food at Casa Bonita is horrendous. Always has been. But it's awful. And they make everyone over the age of 2 buy a plate. So, Easton had to get a plate of stuff we knew he wouldn't touch. Jason and I opted for the vegetarian meals (which they don't put on their menu)...I can hardly stomach the "cheese" there so I certainly won't attempt their meat. Ick. Their food stinks:

But like I said in January, the food is not why you go to Casa Bonita. It's the atmosphere we were seated right near the waterfall where we could watch their pathetic little shows with stage fighting and fake guns (lovely!) and the cliff divers and the mariachi band. Neither kid was interested in the food in front of them, they kept turning to see everything:




I can't say that I blamed them a bit! We actually did get Easton and Dalton both to take some bites of chips (which those aren't even good!) and some cheese sauce enchilada. In exchange for Easton's bites, Jason would do a small trick for E which included balancing a spoon on his nose:


Dalton was amused too:


They announced that they'd be breaking the piñata so J took Easton to do that while Dalton and I paid the bill. Easton didn't get a turn to hit at the piñata but I saw him trying to get chosen. So that made me sad...he did get to get his token two pieces of candy, though:


We went through Black Bart's "haunted" cave and then into the arcade where we played a dollar's worth of games:

Then got Easton a clapper toy with 10 tickets. Good times.

Next we went behind the waterfall. I hoped my daredevil wasn't getting too many ideas...his head got wet though:




We went and watched the lamest puppet show ever and then went and found an equally lame magic show. Actually it wasn't as bad as their stupid puppet show but after seeing Lance Burton I certainly wasn't impressed. But Easton was. Which is all that mattered. In fact, he surprised us by really wanting to be one of the volunteers up on stage. He had us pretty convinced that he wanted to go up there...I kind of wanted to see what would happen if he did get picked. But like the piñata escapade, he didn't get chosen anyway.

After the magic show was over we posed by the bottom of the waterfall which was not reached by our flash:


Then we took the boys on the little rides they have on the way out. You can't tell from the pic, but maybe you can tell from E's smile that he's riding in a Batmobile!


And Dalton is in a bus:


We had them take turns on the motorcycle so we could show the pics to PawPaw (and y'all):




Still getting the hang of the "double thumbs up", I guess:




After that we called it a day...and that was the night that Easton got the boys ready for bed.

Sunday morning had Jason feeling a little overwhelmed with school. He had ignored any homework thanks to our Vegas trip and was needing to get back on track. So, being the lovely, supportive, understanding wife that I am I took the boys out to run a bunch of errands so that Jason could have some time to work on school.

First we went to Lowe's for a fan pull for Easton's room. He picked a basketball. Then we drove by Old Navy and the Dollar Tree but neither was open yet so we had to kill some time at McDonald's. I told the boys we were going and Dalton was being cranky and crying for other reasons... but Easton said, "Babes, don't worry...I'll keep an eye on you." Awwww. Which reminds me of another story I hadn't shared on the blog yet. The day before we left for Vegas Dalton was being cranky again and Easton (having me and J leaving on his mind) told Dalton, "Don't cry Dalton, we're going to have fuu-unnn (it was two syllables) and Gramoo and I will take care of you". Isn't E the sweetest???

So at Mc'Ds, I bought an iced coffee and watched them play for a bit:


Till Dalton fell down a couple of the stairs and I had to rush in the tube thingie to rescue him, but I whacked my own head on the way in. Ow ow ow! It was time to go anyway so I was making a big deal about my head and was fake crying to make the boys laugh:


Easton decided that since I'd hurt myself he needed to push the cart for me. He did a pretty good job!



We also scored and found a Spiderman puzzle and a two new Spidey books...as well as some Elmo books for D. They were happy!

While we were out we also went to return books at the library (even though they were closed), we went to make a return at Old Navy, we got gas, we went to the other Dollar Tree (didn't find what I went for at the first store), and we went to the Mexican supermarket for real tortillas. I have a thing for authentic flour tortillas. Yum. So we got two packs and bought one of the cutest cookies I'd ever seen:


All the while the boys were so well behaved reading their new books whenever we were in the car:




After all that errand running and hoping J was making good school progress at home we went to Spicy Pickle for sandwiches for J and I and Noodles for mac for the boys. Then we brought it all home. And ate. And the boys did quiet time so J could do more homework. And I got started on all those blogs you've been reading :)