More posts about my kid

[judecorp]

(It's becoming that type of blog.)

Tonight we took Punk out to Red Robin. We decided a while back that Punk has a big love for Red Robin. Basically, when Punk was particularly difficult to take out due to reflux and fussiness and an inability to sit unassisted (so no high chair, but she hated the car seat and she was getting too squirmy to hold) we had to eat somewhere on the way home from the airport and there was a Red Robin, so we went. And she didn't puke, and drank her whole bottle, and was really happy. The next day we drove past another Red Robin on the way home from my grandparents' place and we stopped there and the same thing. So we gave Punk a sick fascination with Red Robin.

One opened up at the local mall and every time we've tried to go it has been PACKED. We went early enough today (after a little romp through the mall where I just HAD to buy Punk a pair of jeans from H&M that had a rainbow belt) that we were able to get in fairly quickly and Punk was amused by everything, including balloons.

Today was the first day we actually ordered a kids' dinner for her (chicken and cheese quesadilla, but we didn't hand it to her, we pulled it apart) and a kids' milk and it was so crazy to go to a restaurant and order a meal for my kid! My kid, who is old enough to eat a meal. And for the record, she ate half of the quesadilla and all of the mandarin orange sections (she'd never had those before - LOVED them), at least half of the milk, and before dinner she ate most of a snack trap full of Kix because it kept her content in the stroller at the mall (too hot for Ergo).

Dear God, when did she get so BIG?

Comments

[hetterrific.livejournal.com]

Catherine really enjoys Red Robin, too. Did you know you can get free "refills" on the kids food, too? She and her cousin shared a meal and they brought out free refills of the mac & cheese and oranges for them.

[oppendonnell.livejournal.com]

What's REd Robin?

[etherial.livejournal.com]

A "standard American fair" chain that specializes in strawberry lemonade and burgers.

PS - Kix are the awesomest.

[violane.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. You just made me crave the steak fries.

[kaleidoscopeeye.livejournal.com]

The beebs are also big fans of Red Robin. They have a kids meal there that is chicken and pasta and it is pretty darned healthy...the noodles are pretty plain and big enough that they can pick them up and eat and the chicken is grilled :) Yay!

[sareste.livejournal.com]

We are fans of Red Robin because even if Mara has a meltdown, it's usually so noisy and chaotic in there that no one even looks in our direction.

Oh and steak fries!

[sassywoman.livejournal.com]

We took Emma to the Red Robin by our house on July 4th and she loved it. It is so surreal ordering them something off the kids menu. Big girls!

[estrange.livejournal.com]

Oh Red Robin how I love & miss thee...

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

I love Red Robin. Probably the best place to go for fancy burgers. Certainly so among the national chains. There's one on Hilliard-Rome that I go to sometimes, but more often I hit the one at Easton, by the Chiller.

I remember my nephew at that age. There was one incident with him at an Appleby's, but it was my brother's fault for letting him handle his own food. I think my nephew was around 18 months at that time.

It gets more interesting when they get to the age where they're mobile and want to run all over the restaurant. We went to Shells on Brice Rd. (it's a chinese buffet now) for my 26th birthday, when he was about 2 and a half, and he just wanted to get down and run all over the restaurant.

Now he's 13, and he's almost as tall as I am. It's so wrong!