  Our weekend was good. We got to go see Lis in Chicago. It wasn't warm but it wasn't raining either. We were at the McCormick Center which is right on the water, it is just south of the aquarium and museums at Soldier Field, so it was pretty windy. It was so much fun! They have these huge tents set up where you get to drive all of their cars.
Hubby's favorite was the little two seater Crossfire and realistically, I really liked the Pacifica. I did get to drive the Volkswagon Bug. Uh-oh, not good...hubby could barely fit in the backseat! The guy who rode with us pushed his seat all the way forward and Scott still was scrunched back there...lol! Plus, it was a convertible so I doubt he could have made it with the top up! I guess I will be waiting a LONG time for my bug...haha!
Anyway, they had all these courses set up for you to drive and see the different features of their cars...of course, B and I both loved the part where we got to hit the gas and slam on the breaks at the last second...lol! We were there for about four hours, driving the different cars, watching a cigar rolling demonstration, just hanging out with Lis and her friends.
Then we drove out to Oak Brook for our favorite pizza...yummy! Sunday we just picked up the house, did a little yard work, and hung out. My friend and her son came over and we took the kids to the carnival that was in the parking lot of Wings. We were there for several hours as the kids rode most of the rides. B has about 6 inches to go before he can ride the adult rides...boy was he upset! He wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel so badly and all the other "adult" rides. It was so funny!
They had one of those huge slides where you walk up this incredibly high staircase and slide down on something that looks like a potato sack. Well, he was tall enough to go alone so I told him he could do it, thinking he would never make it up the stairs. It took him about three minutes to get up the stairs. He kept stopping and just standing there and then he would start back up.
I was just laughing because it looked like he was trying to convince himself to go up...after he went down once, he was hooked. His friend wanted to go after watching B do it but backed out once he was on the top...B just said, "I'm not scared of anything! " But when he was relaying this all to hubby he tells him, "The stairs made me a little worried but then I remembered I'm not scared..." too funny!
The two kids did not get along and I was getting pretty disgusted. My friend was NOT policing her child. I understand B was misbehaving as well, but I was all over him when he was naughty. She was just letting it continue...her kid was calling B names and being really mean. Finally, I had enough. I know it isn't appropriate to parent someone else's child but my child was being hurt in the process. So, I started telling him to cut it out. The final ride of the evening, this kid hauls off and punches B. I yell at him to leave his hands to himself. Not two seconds later, this kid is slapping him. I yell out, "C! Get your hands off B NOW! " At that point, my friend says, I think it is time to go home. YOU THINK??? She had driven us so they had to drop us back at our house.
While we are enroute, C says, can we go and play at their house? She tells him, we'll see. Hell no! So I pipe in, B and I are going to be taking naps when we get home. I was not about to invite this kid into my house to beat on B some more.
I know, I know, I sound like one of those overprotective moms...but really, this shit had gone on for a really long time and I didn't feel I was protecting B by allowing this kid to act like a maniac and yelling at B when he would start doing the same thing. Needless to say, it will be a very long time before we get together with them again! anyway...I finally had a dream with some closure...I will relay it later. I've been avoiding work for almost two hours now! 
