winter fun

Last week was not so positive for my family (my beloved grandfather passed) so we're trying to schedule some fun in order to move forward. I just made reservations here.... http://www.carnivalechicago.com/
and cannot wait to check it out.

Luckily E (usually) appreciates our not so family oriented restaurant choices. She became the focus of everyone around us at Blue Water Grill when she joyfully shared our lobster. We proved them wrong as I'm pretty sure they weren't exactly thrilled when they saw that our party of 3 included one under 3. The only real melt down was one time at Pierrot Gourmet, but luckily we were seated outside and her dad quickly whisked her away in the stroller while I finished my fondue in peace. Anyway, I feel like we'll become the pizza hut family once we have 2 to deal with so we're trying to pack in the fun places before time runs out. At least now we can take turns fielding the requests for whatever is in the bottom of the diaper bag while the other one cleans up the spill etc. Maybe we'll go back to organizing an early dinner for the tots and sneaking in our favorite take-outs w/drinks (lots of drinks) while they sleep soundly in their little beds. We did this a few days ago and forgot to destroy one small piece of the evidents. I had to deal with many questions about where the container came from, what was in it and how we got it here.