In theory a PBS Kids Open House sounded like a fun-filled morning with cool songs, hands-on activities and pictures with Martha Speaks and Cat in the Hat. This event was our PB & J Day for the week, lots of mamas were excited and expectations high. Well...in reality it was overcrowded, unorganized and too small of a space for that many strollers. We made it to our meeting spot right at 9am after learning the car was on E, following the slowest driver ever, running into road construction, being stalled by a train and then stuck behind a street cleaner. Despite all that I maneuvered through the parking ramp, lifted our mammoth double stroller out of our tiny Corolla trunk and had quiet yet excited little boys for passengers.
No need for directions we just followed the stream of strollers, pregnant mamas, screaming kiddos and fishy crackers to the Open House. Wow, hundreds of other people had the same vision I did. The line for registration was a mile long but who needs to register, we bye-passed that and went straight for Martha Speaks. All the craft stations looked so fun with dog ears, tall hats, tattoos and more but who could really tell we couldn't get close enough, too many people.
(can you spot Steve Songs?)
Steve Songs was just an energetic in person but way more tan. The crowd was dancing and singing, some of the parents more than kids, and he sounded great. My boys did enjoy the bubble area and water tubs but we just couldn't move with all the people.
We briefly saw our friends and I could tell by the mamas faces we all felt the same way...get us out of here. After about an hour we left, took a nice walk down by the union, fed some ducks and camped out on the sidewalk for 20 minutes watching construction equipment at work (my kids highlight for sure). Lunch was approaching and I needed an excuse for a McDonald's mocha frappe sooo "Daddy can we stop at your work and bring lunch?", "well of course!".
Trex has been begging to go to work with daddy so this was perfect. We entered the quiet workplace a bit sweaty, arms full of frappes and bagel sandwiches and two little ones squealing for their hero, daddy. Trexen kept saying, "this is so cool", he saw daddy's desk, met the co-workers and we had lunch outside. As a mama I have learned to roll with the punches. Sometimes plans need to be adjusted, sometimes they need tweaking and sometimes they need to be scrapped all together. We turned reality into some great memories this morning, now it is nap time, ahhh.
No need for directions we just followed the stream of strollers, pregnant mamas, screaming kiddos and fishy crackers to the Open House. Wow, hundreds of other people had the same vision I did. The line for registration was a mile long but who needs to register, we bye-passed that and went straight for Martha Speaks. All the craft stations looked so fun with dog ears, tall hats, tattoos and more but who could really tell we couldn't get close enough, too many people.
(can you spot Steve Songs?)
Steve Songs was just an energetic in person but way more tan. The crowd was dancing and singing, some of the parents more than kids, and he sounded great. My boys did enjoy the bubble area and water tubs but we just couldn't move with all the people.
We briefly saw our friends and I could tell by the mamas faces we all felt the same way...get us out of here. After about an hour we left, took a nice walk down by the union, fed some ducks and camped out on the sidewalk for 20 minutes watching construction equipment at work (my kids highlight for sure). Lunch was approaching and I needed an excuse for a McDonald's mocha frappe sooo "Daddy can we stop at your work and bring lunch?", "well of course!".
Trex has been begging to go to work with daddy so this was perfect. We entered the quiet workplace a bit sweaty, arms full of frappes and bagel sandwiches and two little ones squealing for their hero, daddy. Trexen kept saying, "this is so cool", he saw daddy's desk, met the co-workers and we had lunch outside. As a mama I have learned to roll with the punches. Sometimes plans need to be adjusted, sometimes they need tweaking and sometimes they need to be scrapped all together. We turned reality into some great memories this morning, now it is nap time, ahhh.
