Sesame Place

What a day! I don't think much could top this day in the life of Tyler and Carter. We got up nice and early and headed on the 2.5 hour drive to Sesame Place. Tyler fell asleep on the way there, but Carter did not. Instead he had a fun time of ripping up stickers. Opa accidentally drove by the park once and Tyler kept saying over and over again "missed the park". It was quite humorous.

I had been somewhat worried on how Tyler would take the park, given how he is usually apprehensive in new situations. As we were walking into the park he saw the roller coaster and immediately wanted to ride it (the one ride he was to young for). I was so happy that he was excited to go on it. First stop was climbing on the fire truck and then onto the carousel. I knew
the boys would love these and they did. Bert and Ernie stopped by as well. Tyler looked on from a distance and Carter got a little closer, but still wasn't sure what to think of them. After that we kept going on ride after ride. Tyler loved every single one - his favorite being the flying fish ride. Carter didn't really seem to enjoy them that much, asking to be all done in the middle of them. One ride was the blast off ride, which I am surprised they even let Carter on. All you could see of him from the harness was his feet and face. He really didn't like that ride so we went and got lunch afterwards.

After lunch we went and saw Elmo's World Live Tyler didn't like it at all so Justin gad to take him out. He kept asking to see Cookie Monster, but we don't think that would have made a difference. Carter was mesmerized by it. He wasn't sure of when Elmo came up right next to him, but he loved watching the show. We then switched into swimsuits and hit the water rides. They both had a great time splashing, going down slides, running thru the fountains (Carter wasn't so sure of them) and wading in the pools. On one of the tube rides they got to go down a water slide with Justin and I. When Justin and Tyler hit the water the tube flipped over and into the water they went. It was the end of water slides after that for Tyler, which was too bad since he loved it up til that part. So we stuck with the wading pools and fountains. The boys also loved getting to climb on Cooke Mountain and bounce on Ernie's bed.

Then it was onto the parade. We had a great spot thanks to Oma saving them ahead of time. Tyler loved watching the characters from afar, but didn't like them up close. Eventually he was ok enough to let daddy high-five them for him and wave to them when they were on their floats. Carter loved the whole thing, even when Zoe, Grover, and Cookie Monster rubbed his head. After the parade we rode a couple more rides and got ready to head home. Carter started falling asleep in his stroller so Opa picked him up where he proceeded to fall asleep sitting up straight. We then tried the carousel one more time (I wanted him awake to take pictures) where he fell asleep on that as well. He woke up enough to make it to dinner and then fell asleep within 5 minutes of hitting his car seat. Endless to say he had never been awake that long in his life and I don't see him doing it again in the near future.

I am so glad we got to do this with the boys, I think it stretched Tyler a lot and I was so happy to see how well he adjusted to everything. They both had a great time and we had so much fun watching it thru their eyes. I am hoping our picture website will be working again soon (its not letting me upload pictures currently) so here is a slide show of pictures from the day so you can see the pictures now.