Kids and Restaurants

I love dining out. But, unfortunately, the kids don't love it as much. Usually, they start to get restless during meals and either need to walk around (more precisely be chased around) and/or given an electronic device to play with. So, even though we still go out often, it's not with the same joy as in the past.

But, today was different. T admitted it was hard to wait (we watched a Daniel Tiger episode today where he goes to the restaurant and has to wait and talks about it being hard), but he colored a little, talked a lot, ate, checked out the crowd and only played about 10 minutes on the iPad during a 1.5 hour plus meal. That's right - 10 minutes. Daddy and I were so impressed!

And, even though Emma stood up in her high chair a few times and needed to have my hand on her for most of the meal as well as constant attention, she even stayed seated.

It was AMAZING.

Thank you to Lolo and Lola for taking us all out to celebrate my upcoming birthday !!






Self portrait


Maybe knowing he'd get this at the end kept T behaved?


Emma did get upset when the ice cream was taken away


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