Once you go to Chuck-E-Cheese’s, you always go to Chuck-E-Cheese’s. There is no escaping it. Who could want more than state-of-the-art automatronics, skee-ball, race car video games (Gordon’s favorite), gobs of tickets and, of course, wack-a-mole.
After looking forward to leaving all day, Gordon fell asleep in the car. No worries though. He woke up fine when we arrived. As we entered Ethan’s attention was quickly redirected from the two A-10 Warthogs flying overhead (pointing is a new development) to the Cheese wonderland. His eyes about popped out of his head.
It seemed a little weird having just celebrated Ethan’s birthday, but I’m sure we’ll get used to it. Hope they do. We also ran into the Pritt’s, friends from the neighborhood. Their daughter also was celebrating her birthday. So many birthday’s in May.
Gordon was totally thrilled with his presents. Last night Alicia and I put together the volcano mountain, he was thrilled this morning. Alicia bought it for three dollars on Ebay plus shipping, no kidding. A few parts needed hot gluing and one piece will need a bit of soddering eventually, but fine otherwise. Alicia and I had to grin when Gordon shouted, “I can’t hear you” and talked loud over his new CD player with Veggie Tales booming. [Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Walker.] He still carries his 10 dollars and card around with him from Grandma and Grandpa Muhlestein. He thinks he is rich and tells us so. He was really happy with everything he got, but mostly he just feels so special and important. You can tell. He knows today is his day.