Another Fun Trip to the City

I apologize, these pictures are in here in random order, so bare with me...Saturday we took the train into the city for some Chicagoween fun and shopping. American Girl store moved to the old Lord and Taylor building so we had to go check it out. Good thing the Nintendo DS still had battery left to entertain Cade while Maddi and I were checking out the new store. The kids both had some money they have earned so Maddi was busy looking for something that wouldn't cost all of her money ($15). She wanted something for $5.00 (yeah, right, at American Girl) but she ended up spending all her money plus some of mine :) on a cooking set for her dolls. It's actually pretty cute with an apron, rolling pin, flour, sifter, cookie cutter, etc. She was happy as lark and then we were on our way to the Lego store for Cade to spend his money. Cade chose a Star Wars set that he spent all of his money on ($11) plus some of my money. He was happy as a lark too and then we were on our way back to the train to go home so they could play with their new toys.

This picture is from the FAO Schwartz section in Macy's on State Street. Cade is into Batman right now since Lego Batman is his newest game for his DS.

The city of Chicago has so many cool things for kids/families. Chicagoween is one we never made it to last year, so we were excited to go this year. At Chicagoween they have the Midnight Circus, pumpkin decorating, mask making, face painting, balloon animals, etc. and it's all free. We watched two shows of the Midnight Circus and the kids got this picture with one of their favorite performers.

This was one of their favorite acts from the Midnight Circus. I was so nervous watching them juggle fire and knives. They even stood on one foot on one guys head and juggled knives to each other. I don't care if the knives were real or not, people should not stand on other peoples heads! I was so afraid he was going to paralyze him and break his neck.

It was cracking me up during the show Maddi kept saying, "I can do that". She is strong and flexible like some of the performers and it was fun to hear her want to work toward something. Each show was the same but with different acts. There were some really talented people with some cool tricks/talents. The kids and I really enjoyed it even though we were pretty cold. We got hot chocolate for the second show so that helped us enjoy it more.

Before the first and between the first and second show the kids were playing on the sculpture in the Daley Plaza. I have no idea what the sculpture is, but the kids were having a blast sliding down it. If you click the picture, you can see Cade on his belly in his orange shirt sliding down.

They dye the fountain orange for Halloween. At football they give out orange crush awards and the kid gets a liter of orange crush soda. Cade called it the orange crush fountain and wanted to drink it up.

Here is Cade sliding down the sculpture.

Here is Maddi sliding down. They learned from watching the other kids to slide on their jackets to go faster. The first video below is of the kids sliding down the scupture. This was after the first show and the sculpture was getting quite crowded. I forget when I video that I can't turn the camera, so you have to turn your head.

The second video is of a tap dancer on Michigan Avenue. Him and his band were so fun to watch. We always enjoy the street performers on Michigan. This video is sideways too. I know..I know...

The third video is from Cade's game Sunday. He is on the kickoff return team and he is standing by the coach in the back, number 45. Not very exciting, but you can see him in action. They lost the game, so the season is over. Basketball starts this week!