IM IN UR NIGHTCLUB... BOPPIN UR BALOONZ

[swingchickie]

FINALLY, my post about last weekend! katehaney, occhi_cinesi and kate's little dudelet road-tripped down here from boston to spend the weekend... the culmination of which was "baby loves disco", a kid-friendly nightclub event held at fluid (the same club that hosts sex dwarf every month).



so. the gals and teddy made it down on friday evening, and we crashed soon after an absolute orgy of chinese takeout. i got to sleep in the next morning ("sleep in" = up at 8am), and katehaney made us an awesome breakfast while we watched baby einstein videos with teddy. i'm shocked at how much he's grown since i saw him in april... and his vocabulary grows by the minute. by the end of the weekend, he'd added several new words to his repertoire, including my favorite, "angus". he was really taken with angus, every time the cat walked in the room teddy would squeal and giggle. but the ultimate compliment was after breakfast... teddy shows he likes you by giving you a toy, and as we sat there chatting, we looked over to see him giving angus one of his toy trucks:



angus: "i don't get it. is this edible?"


we spent a chunk of the afternoon at peddler's village, at their annual apple festival... it was MOBBED beyond belief. but we managed to stuff ourselves with just about every possible apple permutation -- apple dumplings, apple butter, and the awesome apple fritters with caramel sauce.



yes, that is the giant vat of boiling oil they use to fry up the fritters. nummy.

before we left, we headed over the the kiddie area of the complex, where there's a big old carousel and video games (DDR! *squeal*!) and stuff. teddy went on just about all of the little kiddie rides, and even went on the big carousel:



taking a step back and looking at the 3 of us gals with teddy, putting him on rides and cooing and clapping and fawning all over him, i totally cracked up... the town that this place is in is basically the provincetown of PA (for the bostonians), and it hit me that we totally looked like we were teddy's three mommies. *guffaw*

mommy #2 riding in the copter with him:



so, sunday afternoon was kiddie clubbin' at baby loves disco! basically, once a month this group takes over fluid nightclub, and turns it into a kiddie-friendly place for wee ones and their parents to party down. it was an absolute riot.



the platform in the middle of the club, that normally houses writhing shirtless young men, was replaced with bins of scarves and percussion egg shaker things for the kids to play with... and while the bar was open for the parents (whee!), the countertops full of pop rocks and blow pops were now covered in organic juice boxes:



and the place smelled like unchanged diapers, but i don't think that's very different from a normal sex dwarf night. even the makeout lounge upstairs behind the dj booth (why did i not know that was up there?) was transformed into a quiet area with books and stuffed animals:



the dj played pretty decent music, and the lights were going all crazy and there was a bubble machine burping out bubbles every few minutes, and teddy LOVED the balloons tied to the balcony. he had an ear-to-ear grin for the entire thing. i was geting a kick out of it too... i begged occhi_cinesi to pretend she didn't know it was a kiddie club thing and hit on one of the dads, but she wouldn't do it. dammit.

i think, though, the best photo of the experience is here:



a line of strollers parked in the graffiti-d alleyway... PRICELESS.

and now kate and chris and tedlet are back in boston and i'm here and i miiiiisssss theeeeemmmm.

Comments

Hot Momma!

[occhi-cinesi.livejournal.com]

I just need to note that my favorite pic is of Teddy on the carousel... and that haute momma behind him - love it! The pose, the pursed lips, the movie star shades, grrrrrrr!

Although the organic juice boxes lining the bar, that was damn fun too.

And I wimped out, I did not hit on any 'Big Daddys (literally)'. I mean, what would be the best pick-up line? "Can I grab you a juicebox?" "Would you like a triangle of whole wheat pita with organic hummus?" [licking lips] "Did you spill? I have a baby wipe, right here... oops, did I drop it on the floor?"

SwingChickie, an offer (shimmying my shoulders), come up for Baby Disco in January and I'll work on my lines...

Re: Hot Momma!

[boutell.livejournal.com]

"Did you spill? I have a baby wipe, right here... oops, did I drop it on the floor?"

Priceless.

Shame I didn't discover this was happening locally before my kid turned seven!

(I mean, technically she could probably go, but I don't reckon she'd be up for a roomful of diaper babies. (: )

[southstman.livejournal.com]

and the place smelled like unchanged diapers, but i don't think that's very different from a normal sex dwarf night.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

and, to hell with Blow Pops next week, I should recreate this scene:



See ya next week! :)

-rd

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Love you, hate photobucket. How exactly do I get to see the bigger versions of the photos? I click on them and all I get is the photobucket home page.

[swingchickie.livejournal.com]

i made them all small-ish, because i didn't want to wallop anyone lookin' at the post with a bunch of huge pix. maybe i should make them one size bigger next time...?

I'll bop yur balloon, baybee!

[katehaney.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous weekend! What fantastic pictures!

We miiiiiisssss yoooooooou! Come to Boston! Come BLD here! Come here without BLD! Pleeeeeeease???