If you let him run around a playground with several of his good friends for 2 solid hours, Tai will actually manage to nap in the car on the way to Boston.
Even a small city like Boston is downright thrilling to a four year old. ("Look! Skyscrapers!" as he points out the dorms around BU's Nickerson Field)
Music, lights, and acrobats (and popcorn) can hold Quynh's attention for a solid hour.
Quynh can eat her weight in popcorn.
Contortionists are really interesting for about 5 minutes. And then it just gets creepy, and a tad boring.
Quynh is too young to appreciate the clown acts. Several times during one part she turned to me and said, "all done man" as if I had the power to remove the clown from the ring and switch to a more thrilling act. This ain't The Gong Show, honey.
Tai, however, is at exactly the right age for slapstick clown humor. While Quynh was yawning, Tai was cackling.
Walking through Faneuil Hall with a headstrong toddler and a pre-schooler who won't break character in his role as velociraptor (complete with growling at strangers) is MUCH easier when you have two extra adults with you (Thanks J and E for coming with!)
I didn't get to see it, but apparently a living statue startled Quynh in a hilariously Funniest-Home-Videos kind of way. Later, I tried to get her to sit next to an actual statue and she was wary as hell, waiting for it to move. Someday she'll be on a therapist's couch working through her seemingly unnatural fear of statues.
Afternoon nap + Circus fun + large amounts of chocolate cake = Tai stayed awake in the car until we were 15 minutes from home. I think he was up until close to 10pm. This morning we wished his teachers the best of luck and high-tailed it out of there.
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