Shedd Aquarium

A few weekends ago the kids and Aaron and I went up to Shedd's Aquarium for a day trip! We were feeling like we had been stuck inside for so long we wanted to get out and do something. We decided we would head up to Shedd's and then go to The Cheesecake Factory after.

The boys generally don't like to travel for periods of time but this day they did pretty good! We had gotten one of those Nabi kid tablets and so they enjoyed that. I had picked up a few Redbox movies so that also helped. They even slept just a little bit.

As we got to Shedd's Aaron was driving around to find a parking spot. We were going in circles to try and find one. As Aaron was parking I had reached back and asked Cruiser to hand me the tablet so I could put it away. I had asked him a couple times and he wouldn't give it to me. I turned around and said, "Cruiser(actually said his real name) give me the tablet." I realized he had a weird look on his  face and he was just staring at me. I said, "Come on give it to me now." He still wouldn't move so I moved his coat out of the way to grab it and when I did I saw he had thrown up on his shirt and pants. I said, "What happened?" He said, "Daddy going to fast in circles." Poor guy got car sick looking at the tablet and the van going in circles to park.

I was thinking oh man we haven't even made it in the front door and one of the kids has throw up all over him. I was thinking we would just have to wipe it off and he would have to deal with it. Aaron said he had put extra pants in the car. I was thinking what is he talking about because I didn't set out extra pants to put in the car. Turns out I had washed a pair of jeans that were too small for the other kid to wear anymore and I had stuck them by the stairs to get put away in the storage room. Aaron saw those jeans and thought they were extra pants so he stuck them in the van! I'm so glad he did because we were able to take the pants off of Bruiser, put them on Cruiser and then put the jeans on Bruiser. I'm learning how to improvise more with kids!

Once we finally got into Shedd's we headed to the bathroom. As Aaron and Bruiser were walking back I noticed Bruiser was talking weird. I said to Aaron, "Did he poop his pants?" Aaron said, "No he peed on them." I only thought he had peed a little bit because I just saw a little spot on the front of the jeans so I was like ok whatever and we started walking through the aquarium. We headed the the live aquatic show a little later and Bruiser was sitting on my lap. When he got off to sit in his own spot I noticed my pants were wet. I asked Aaron, "Why are my pants wet?" Aaron says, "I told you he peed on his pants." UGH....I had misunderstood Aaron when he told me earlier. I thought he just got a little spot on his jeans. I guess he didn't get his jeans pulled all the way down so when he peed some of it shot out on his jeans....boys I guess...So now Cruiser had puke on his shirt, Bruiser had pee on his pants and I had pee on my pants. As the aquatic show went on Bruiser kept taking his shoe off. I had put it back on 3 times and the 4th time I went to grab his foot to put it back on he had muddy slime all over his sock. He was sticking it down between where the concrete came together for the seat and where your feet went. Seriously...what is wrong with these kids today. I threw his sock away so he ended up wearing jeans that were too short and only one foot had a sock on it.

Life with kids is way more interesting.

They did seem to enjoy Shedd's but I think they did get bored after awhile.

However, The Cheesecake Factory was AMAZING! I love that place! Such good food! I wish we had one around here. After all that it might have been easier to stay home!