Father's and Son's.......NOT camping

In our Church, there's an annual Father's and Son's campout. It's always on Mother's Day weekend (and Moms I know would LOVE it if it was a Father's and Kid's campout). As long as we can go out to dinner on Saturday night for Mother's Day, it's fine with me.

Toph looks forward to this for an entire year! Good times are had by all boys and dads--I think.

So this year, Robert throws Toph a curve ball. He gives Toph a CHOICE: either, the traditional Father/Son campout with the friends OR time alone with Dad--beach, dinner, MOVIE. Toph did take a few seconds to contemplate this big choice before asking if he could have the beach/movie/campout option--smart kid. To Robert's credit, he said that either option was COMPLETELY fine with him and did not sway either way.

In the end, Toph decided to take the beach/dinner/movie option. Toph has been wanting to go to the beach for a LONG time, and we haven't done it in a month. He LOVES going out to dinner at Islands, and movies AT THE MOVIE THEATER are just top notch for Toph. It's hard for camping to compete with the beach, Islands for dinner (GREAT burger place), and Iron Man at the movie theater. I'm sure they're having a great time, and we've decided we need to do this more often than once a year. Maybe once every OTHER month (whoever doesn't go with Dad gets special ALONE time with Mom).

So what did Hannah and I do? For our girlie time, we went to Hannah's favorite, Chevy's, for dinner. Seriously, HANNAH did the choosing. I'm not a big fan of the Chevy's here--horrible service and a parking nightmare most of the time. Then we went to Borders--be still my heart!--and read and bought some books. We went to the store for some ice cream, and now we're playing on the computer. Really, as I type this, I Hannah keeps having me do stuff on the game WE'RE playing on the other computer. But Hannah's going to bed at a regular bedtime. That's the curse of whoever gets stuck with Mom--no sense having both kids sleep deprived tomorrow!

Here's to Father/Son and Mother/Daughter dates--pretty fun!

Just an update: the boys did NOT get to eat at Islands--too long of a wait, so they'd miss their movie. Toph picked Rubio's instead. Also, Topher apparently talks constantly through movies, AND he thought that Iron Man was probably close to an X-rated movie--because it was scary. Too funny! They had a good time, and Toph was entertaining--what more could you want?