Cafe Crazy

On Wednesday the kids came home and announced, "WE DON'T HAVE CLASSES TOMORROW!" Sometimes when they don't have school, it can make for a long day, so Gloria and I were talking about setting up a "restuarant" for dinner. The idea continued evolving, until we decided that it would be a mystery dinner and everything would be different than what the kids are used to. They came in and had to find their seat, looking at backwards name cards. Each place had a utensil that the child was supposed to eat with and then they each chose from menus with nonsense items. Some of the staff here were the servers.

It was so funny as the kids tried to guess the food items and were so excited about each course that came out. When the meal was nearing the end, we had a boy vs. girl eating competition. One girl would come up against one boy and they would face a food challenge, (crackers, watermelon, chocolate, water, lime, peppers, etc...) Yaneli and Daniel, (our children missing their 2 front teeth) raced to eat an apple. :) The kids loved cheering on their teammates! The boys won the competition, but the girls were not far behind. Lupita attacked her lime with such surprising tenacity, that I would have her represent me in a food eating competition any day! Angel discovered that his cookie scoop was a great launcher for flipping his noodles from his chicken noodle soup, and we decided Jose might do better with a huge shovel everyday. :)

Not everyone loved the night...refer to the below blog entry. :)