My Tummy Hurts

We went to Hershey Park this past Saturday. Had a good time. No one absconded from the park with my children this time so that was good. Learned that the children are complete daredevils and will ride any roller coaster that they are tall enough for. With their arms stretched high into the air. Me? I hold on. FOR DEAR LIFE. Sam also enjoys the roller coasters but is only tall enough to ride the trailblazer. Sam also refuses to hold on. His sisters have taught him well.
On the way out I stopped back into Chocolate World and allowed each child to pick out a treat. (Had to talk Emma out of the $19.95 chocolate kiss which is filled with 10 pounds of miniature kisses) Ended up with a one pound Hershey bar for Liz and one pound Hershey kisses for Sam and Emma. Next question: "Can we eat them in the car?" Do I look stupid? But I relented and allowed them to open their treats as we rode home.

I drove. Big mistake. By driving, this automatically eliminated me from monitoring the chocolate consumption in the back of the van. This left Daddy and Mr. Paul in charge of chocolate consumption monitoring. So basically there WAS NO monitoring of the chocolate consumption.

So we're on the road for a good bit of time when I can't remember if it occurred to me to ask, or if it was mentioned that Sam still had his gigantic Hershey kiss, but at any rate--he did. At least, what was left of it. He ate about 7.5 ounces of the 8 ounce chocolate chunk. I'll grant you he was wearing probably .75 ounces, and had dropped another quarter ounce on the floor, but that's still a LARGE amount of chocolate for a 3 year old to consume in one sitting. I'm still waiting for him to poop.

So we get home, clean them up (Liz had fallen asleep clutching her candy bar so it had melted and molded to her palm) and pajamify the kids when suddenly they realize we never ate dinner. (I was so tired I tried to convince them that the chocolate was their dinner but they'd have no part of it) so back out I dragged myself to McDonald's to purchase kids meals which no one ate. Why?? Because they all had stomach aches.

Go figure.