Crazy at Carl's Jr!

Lindsey and I have a standing lunch date every Wednesday at 11:00. The intention is that the kids play while we relax and chat. Somehow, that never seems to happen. I thought you might all get a kick out of some of our most cherished Carl's Jr moments.

1. Ryker and Lady taking booster seats into the play place and riding them down the slide. To our credit, this only happened once. We got some seriously shocked looks as we pulled our children out with their very NOISY seats!

2. Jace screaming wildly and then launching his chicken stars across the table.

3. Lindsey compulsively wiping down all surfaces---highchair, table, Ryker's face/hands, table again--just in case.

4. Danielle climbing into the far corner of the play place to rescue Jace--and then wondering why on earth we even let children in that disgusting place.

5. Two random teen boys climbing up the slide, and then falling back down so loudly that it brought the room to an instant, awkward silence. They tried to exit the restaurant nonchalantly, but the whole crashing down the slide thing kind of ruined that plan.

6. Lady and Ryker using their entire hand for dipping into the fry sauce--apparently they didn't even need the fries.

7. Danielle driving away from Carl's Jr. on a rainy day with her back windshield wiper sitcking straight out trying to wipe raindrops from the air. Meanwhile, Lindsey behind her, laughing hysterically.

8. Ryker sneezing in the entrance to the play place, and having green, slimy stuff hanging from his nose to the floor.

9. Jace constantly whining that Ryker and Lady won't play with him. Mind you, after the "mom had to rescue me incident", Jace refuses to climb up into the play place which is where the rest of the normal children are.

10. Lindsey nearly taking down another mom who was certain that Ryker had made her child cry. She settled for just shooting dirty looks at the mom until we called it a day.

Ahhhhhh! The joys of the A.F. Carl's Jr.!