Soooo, Rachel, your wish for Emmy almost came true...
We were at Chuck E Cheese for about 3.5 hours last night!
Emily really enjoyed herself. Her fave part? The machine called the "Ticket Muncher".
If you have never been to Chuck E Cheese, it's a giant playland for kids. And a giant debt machine for parents. They have food, games, and a play area. Well, for some of the games, you win tickets. When you are all finished playing, you take all your tickets to the Ticket Muncher. There you feed them in, and as the machine counts the tickets, it also makes a sound I like to compare to a cow munching on some grass. Kinda gross, really.
Emmy found a game where you would put in a token, then these little lights would bounce around on a tower, racing up and down, all along the numbers 1 to 9. When you hit the stop button, where ever the light would land, that is how many tickets you would win.
So image the pure joy for Emmy as she realized there was a game that she could win lots of tickets at and it was right next to the Ticket Muncher!
She probably spent half her time here, feeding ticket after ticket into this machine. Oh and the tickets, when you win more than one, come out in a strip. But, Emmy decided it was only fun if you fed them to the Ticket Muncher one at a time! It was just too funny to see the wheels turning in her head. She was in Emmy's Happy Place, and nothing could get her out. Not even a promise for a trip to the ice cream parlor. So there Bill and I sat, watching Emmy and giggling at her determination to empty all her remaining tokens into this machine. Too cute!
And unfortunately for mommy, the picture taker in me had pooped out at this point, so I didn't get any pictures. :( But I did get a few that made me smile...
When we got home, Emmy got out her new notebook (she had to have one for school just like Joey) and a pen and started "writing". Now usually she just fills up the lines with a wavy scribble. Kinda like mountain after mountain after mountain. Or wave afer wave after wave....
Well, tonight I hear Joey spelling out her name. And then Joey yelling, "mom come look at this!"
And this is what I found:
I couldnt believe it! I asked him if he was showing her what the letters looked like and he said no, she wrote them without looking at anything. She just wanted to know what her letters were.
Then she asked me what my letters were, and she wrote this:
insert *PROUD MOMMY MOMENT* here!! =)
oh, and I asked her why there were so many lines on some of the "E's" and she said it was because they were "long E's"
LOL!!
