Bicycling and Sesame Place

This weekend, at long last, we (VERY belatedly) celebrated Jarrett's Gotcha Day. He got a new bicycle Friday and we worked with him on learning to ride it. It has training wheels but it's a booger to explain to a four year old how to pedal. Telling him to push down with one foot and let the other one come up doesn't really work so well because inevitably he pushes the wrong way and uses the brake rather than propelling himself forward. If anyone knows the secret to setting this boy free on his wheels, please let us know.

does not like wearing the helmet

But Cara does

On Saturday, we took the kids to Sesame Place in Langhorne, PA. It's kind of like Disney, but smaller and really focussed on younger children. It is only about 40 minutes from here so it was perfect.

Parts of the park are set up to look like the Sesame Street set

and they have tame rides and lots of activities that are interactive.

We went t a little show, that our kids loved and actually sat nicely all the way through it.

We couldn't resist buying the video of Jim and Jarrett on the roller coaster, or "choo-choo train" as Jarrett likes to call it. Take a look, too funny.

We went to a "character dinner" and it was actually a lot of fun and either the food was pretty tasty or we were just hungry. We met Ernie, Bert, the Count, Zoe, Big Bird and the Count. Granted, Jim and I were more excited to meet them than the kids were but it was still alot of fun. Jarrett and Cara were both kind of afraid of the life size characters,

though J did decide that he could be friends with Ernie and Elmo. Cara never did get past wanting to have a long distance relationship with them.

J even scraped up his nerve for an Elmo photo op...well of course, it was Elmo.

After the dinner, we hit the gift shop and then loaded up to head home. We weren't 10 minutes out of the park before we heard some gentle snoring from the back seat, and I confess, I wasn't far behind them! Poor Jim...but I guess that's what you get when you make fun of your wife's driving.

has her blankie hanging out of her mouth. I guess she fell asleep mid-blankie-chew