a tidbit or two: The "Spanky Olympics"

So is anyone else just going stark raving MAD with this cold weather!?!?! Let's just say, WE ARE! In fact I started refusing to wear a coat and then decided that I was only hurting myself. SO, I put it back on...but really, is this not the LONGEST winter ever?

SO, Saturday, John and I took Spanky and Darla to the movie and out to dinner. We went to "Tooth Fairy" if you haven't gone, DON'T GO! John was ready to leave after 15 minutes and after about 30 Spanky got scared so John said, "You want to go...". Spanky agreed and out we went....It's really not worth the money...

Anyway, Spanky had been in the house and cooped up for two days, now to Spanky, this is a LIFETIME! He's used to be going and blowing as we are just on the run all of the time. So let's just say he had a little extra bottled up energy. SO, we told him if he ate his yummy grilled cheese we'd have a SUPER fun game when we got home. Well, he ate the entire thing and home bound we went.

To blow some of this energy and the sugar buzz from the m&m's from the movie, we got him in his "uniform" and we proceeded to have the "Spanky Olympics". After the stretching routine, the first event....running. He had to run around the "circle" in the house 3 times as fast as he could...meanwhile, me taking pictures and John and I cheering him on to run faster! The second event was the "mountain climb". He had to climb the stairs three times. He finished with a thumbs up somewhat like Rocky did when he ran the stairs in "Rocky". And the final event was riding the wheely bug through the kitchen and back around the pole and back three times. It's was much like a "tri-athalon" and he had a BLAST! Not to mention it wore him out a bit. We ended the "Spanky Olympics" with Spanky receiving his "Medal" on the medal stand. He held his hand over his heart and we said the "Pledge of Allegiance". And of course, took pictures!

Spanky really had fun with the "Spanky Olympics", in fact we've played quite a few times since Saturday night. He really loves the running game, so we start him off and he runs and runs and we cheer him on and say, "One More". His favorite part though is receiving his medal. Who doesn't love hearing their name called and a medal put around their neck!!