Transportation Week-Week 5

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Gearing up for the release of "Cars 2", we decided to have transportation week this past week. It was really fun! We started off with a trip to the mall last weekend hoping to catch a car race at the Disney store, but false advertising got me again and it ended up being kind of lame. Still, the kids had fun riding the pretend ambulance and trucks in the play area and watching the flying helicopters the stands try to push you to purchase. We brought along our Papa and Nana and treated Papa to Chickfila for lunch. Thanks for being a sport Pap! Happy Dad's day! The rest of the week consisted of watching "Cars" the first movie, reading transportation books of all kinds, and playing lots of cars games around the house. Tuesday we had our friends Ellen and Aaron over and revived an old race track and Flo's cafe from when Vivi was really into cars around age 2. We had put them in a box in the attic once she was over it and thought if we had a son we could pull them back out. It was like Christmas! All 4 kids spent the entire day around these two toys racing and making the cars talk. It was fantastic! I need to do this with more toys!! In the afternoon the boys napped and the girls helped me make cupcakes to take to the firemen. I was so impressed with their precision. Wednesday we had our cousin Chloe over and hit Chucky Cheese lots of transportation rides which was a blast! Thursday was train day which included some episodes of Chuggington, and a ride on our little train outside the zoo. Nana joined us for this fun as she hadn't ridden it before. It was a great morning! Friday we studied boats not really really but we played in a splash pool at our friend's Clara and Beckett's house. We had a great week! It all lead up to Saturday when we went to see "Cars 2". I think it was cute, but my husband's evaluation was that the story was too complex for kids. Our's made it through but got a little bored. I will say it made me want to travel as they go to many cities and the animated version made it look inticing! Better hold off on that dream!