Hannah was not too thrilled with mini golf but I got a hole in one on the 18th hole and won myself a free game! That was exciting. After that since it was pretty hot outside we went inside to play some games. Hannah really wanted to have a try at the "claw" thing where you NEVER win. It is that game where you manuever the claw usually above a stuff animal or toy and then it drops and you hope and pray it is going to pick the toy up and drop it to you but it doesn't. Well they had a machine full of these balls and Hannah wanted to try and get a ball. So I thought we will just try. One our very first try we got one! I was shocked! Well of course Hannah wanted to try again and get a ball for her sister...but I was thinking this would never happen again and on our 2nd try it didn't. Then we tried again and got another ball! Craziness!! Hannah and I were jumping up and down with so much excitement. Well now we had a purple and pink ball but Hannah really wanted a blue ball...but I didn't see any positioned really well to be picked up so we decided to go try some Skee-Ball. Hannah discovered that the tickets that come from this game can be traded in for prizes and that was really exciting. I attempted to teach Hannah how to play Skee-Ball but she didn't really have the technique for it yet. We then tried this jump roping gaming but that was a fail also...but we got more tickets just for playing so that was a big bonus. It was at this point that we made our way back to "the claw" to attempt to get a blue colored ball for Hannah. We tried 2 times with no luck and I was going to give up but Hannah really wanted to try again so we tried one more time. This time as the claw dropped down it picked up 3 balls! I couldn't believe it!! I really didn't think it would make it with all 3 balls over to the drop spot but it did and we got all 3 including a blue colored ball!!! Hannah and I were super excited and jumping up and down with so much excitement...it was awesome!! I would have gotten a picture of this but my camera battery was really low which really made me mad that I didn't thing to charge it before going on my adventure with Hannah. Anyway, we now had 5 balls one for everyone in our family, including Tulip. I then played some more Skee-Ball to use up our tokens and earn more tickets so that we could trade them in for a cheesy prize which ended up being a fan for Hannah and 2 hershey kisses.
Next it was time for lunch so we went to McDonalds, or old McDonalds as Hannah calls it. Hannah had a kids meal and it came with a blue Strawberry Shortcake doll which made Hannah super excited again because she loves the color blue right now. Here she is eating her lunch while sitting on the cheeseburger guy.
Next it was off to go play in the indoor play structure which Hannah has been asking to do for some time...we never go to McDonalds. Here she found another 4 year old girl and they played for a good 45 minutes. I had to pull her away from McDonalds so we could go to our last destination..the Jelly Belly Factory! Here we went on a tour of the factory. This isn't a great picture but it shows you how super excited Hannah is to be at the Jelly Belly Factory.
We couldn't take pictures on the tour of the factory itself but we got a great professional picture taken of us on the way into the tour. I have it on Facebook but I haven't scanned it into my computer yet, but as soon as I do I will post it. It wasn't cheap but I had to buy it b/c Hannah is actually looking at the camera and smiling nicely which rarely happens these days.
After some shopping at the Jelly Belly store next we went to the Halloween store to look for some Halloween costumes...still don't have one. And then next we went to Michaels Craft store to shop for some birthday party items. As we were driving home in the car I said to Hannah, "Did you like our Mommy & Hannah day?". She tells me, "Yes, but we didn't do enough." What?!! I couldn't believe it b/c we had done so much! I recapped with her all we had done and she then agreed that we had done a lot and said she wanted to do another Mommy & Hannah day....awww. There will definitely be another one b/c we had a great time.
On the way home she fell asleep and when we got home I really dreaded waking her up b/c Hannah is usually SUPER cranky when you wake her up when she has fallen asleep in the car. I brought Adam & Samantha out to help me and as we wake Hannah up she wakes up with a smile and the first thing she says to Adam is, "Daddy we got 3 balls at once from the claw!". Hilarious.
By the way I posted two posts today...below is my recap of our weekend.
