Kid's Choice

Before telling you about our chosen weekend activity here's a few pictures of the everyday at the Perkins home:

Peter loves to sing and Andrea and I were very surprised on day last week when he spouted off just about the entire "let it go" song without any prompting or help! Andrea had him re-do it on video, and he did a pretty good job again! Enjoy:

Max received this stuffed Rex last week at a family party and, for now at least, it has become his essential sleeping companion!

Both of the boys are loving playing like dogs these days.


These moments always tickle me; when kids are being weird or wild or precarious in some way and their parents or anyone else who has kid experience is just going about their business as usual.



There was another moment like that on Friday when we had some good friends to dinner. They also have two little boys and there were toys everywhere, food messes on the table and floor, kids hooping and hollering . . . and none of us were flinching or skipping a beat in our conversation! It's so nice to have lots of friends in the same phase of life.


Now to the activity!

Kid's Choice: Burger King

Peter noticed the other night as we were driving around that Burger King had some sort of playground inside and he asked if we could go there, so we decided that this would be a good weekend to go since we went far away last weekend.

Location: Main Street in Layton, by Walmart

Cost: At least $1 to buy a food item so you don't feel bad about using the playground

Kid friendly: mostly for kids 4 and up
Time Spent: 1 hour, Peter could've spent 2 or 3
Worth going back: Yes

We bought some french fries and two dollar menu sandwiches and then let the kids loose. The playground was WAY cooler than I was expecting it to be! It was all space themed and very imaginative which was PERFECT for Peter since he's been crazy about space for the past few weeks. He went straight up into that white rocket and that's pretty much where he stayed the whole time. It was funny because we could tell that he was talking to us, telling us something about the earth or the universe (pretty emphatically), but we couldn't ever make out what he was saying. I'm glad he was having a good time!

He did come down for a minute to eat some fries.

And here's Andrea and Max eating fast food (a rare occasion.) I'm probably posting this because, as Andrea may put it "Luke doesn't like to seem aloof or uppity in any way." So there you have it. We're just like everyone else! We like fast food!

Most of the playground would be pretty difficult for kids under 4, and difficult for their parents if they got stuck way up in there for some reason. There was a section for little kids though and Max thoroughly took advantage of it. 

I didn't get any pictures of the rest of the day, but in brief, we went to my parents' house. My grandmother's doctor who has become a dear family friend was visiting from China and he made us a plethora of authentic food. The kids had a fun pre-easter egg hunt and we shot bows and arrows. We never got to play hide and seek like I hoped we would (we've played every single night at our house during the past week and I've really gotten into it) but I'm sure we'll manage it another time. 

Another lovely weekend.