Dylan's Super Surprise

After months of debating whether or not it was worth the splurge to take Dylan to this show, we gave in and bought tickets for Thursday night's showing of Walking With Dinosaurs.  We didn't tell Dylan about it - we just told him we had a surprise that was just for him.  He could hardly stand it and talked about surprises and tried guessing and playing 20 questions all day long.  Is it inside or outside?  How far is it?  When do we get there?  Do we sleep over?  Is it Chuck E. Cheese?  You name it, he guessed it.  But he did not guess this.  Marcos' sister, Laura, watched Preston (thanks Lau) so we could have a parent/child outing with just Dylan.  Preston apparently did pretty well and was glued to Uncle Dave all night.  I'm sure Dave was ready for a break, but I think it's so cute when he clings to someone like that.  He's that way with my sister, Melissa's, boyfriend Gustavo too.  Anway, I cannot even begin to describe Dylan's excitement when he found out what the surprise was.  It's like  he couldn't quite take in the reality of it all. He was holding our hand and doing his lopsided skip ... step hop hop, step hop hop (he can't seem to skip on both sides yet).  And when I asked if he wanted a treat he told me we'd better not because he didn't want to miss the dinosaurs.  It was so cute.  He was completely captivated by everything.  Marcos kept trying to get his attention, but his eyes did not move off of the dinosaurs.  He was a little nervous when the allosaurus came after the stegosaurus and held my hand pretty tight, but other than that, he did great.  By the end, he was yelling over the noise to tell me a million thoughts in his little head and to ask me a million questions about the show and dinosaurs - as always.  It's like the kid is thinking out loud nonstop.  But what a great outing it turned out to be.  It's rare for us to go somewhere like this and especially Dylan alone with mommy and papi. You could tell a little alone time with the parents was appreciated.  At the end of the show, he wanted one of the spinning light toys but when we found out it was $18, we decided he could get a toy dinosaur somewhere else to remember our night out.  He was so big about it and just accepted it and thanked us for buying him a toy.  It was super cute!  He wants everyone to know the whole story, but he forgets parts here and there so everywhere we go he comes over and whispers in my ear asking me to tell the story again.  He loves revisiting every detail of the entire show. Hopefully my memory doesn't fail me.  The bad part - we didn't know their camera rule and went with our nice camera and camcorder, two types of cameras that aren't allowed. Dang it! Marcos ran the cameras to the car and we decided we would have to try to remember our evening without any pictures, but I was kind of bummed about it. Luckily, Dylan befriended a little guy in the bathroom at intermission and it turned out they were sitting just a couple rows in front of us.  The lady was so nice and offered to send me some of her pictures and take one of the three of us.  What a lifesaver!  People really are so nice when you give them the chance.  Anyway, the night was awesome!  Dylan was an angel and so thankful and complementary about everything.  Plus he was so much fun to watch and the show was AMAZING!  The sound, lights, story, dinosaurs, effects...EVERYTHING was INCREDIBLE! It was definitely worth the splurge. Here are a few of the pictures our new friend, Nikki, and her son, Connor, sent us.