Party like a ROCKSTAR!

And then get to bed by 9 pm, if you're a two year old rockstar.

Tonight Jayden and I ran a 5k.  In the dark.  With glowsticks.  It was hilarious.  And actually a whole lot of fun.  Going into it I had no idea if Jayden was going to be a disaster and totally freaked out by the music and lights and nonsense or if he was going to love it.  Turns out it was somewhere in between, but closer to love than freaked out, so that was awesome.  Once or twice we got a little too close to a speaker and he cowered in the opposite side of the stroller.  But he also got to jump around with bubbles, dance to some rave music, wave around some multi-colored glowsticks, run through the tunnel at the finish line, and more!  The whole time we were on our way to the car, he kept saying "no mommy's car."  But he couldn't tell me what else he did want to do, which is clue #1 that he's dead tired and has no ability to make any kind of decision.  Poor kid.  I kept him out way too late.  But we have no plans tomorrow or Saturday, so we'll try to lay low and rest up a bit.  If I can convince a two year old to "lay low."

Here is our night in pictures:

Probably one of my favorite pictures ever, even though it's a little odd.
This was before the race - he was having a great time running in small circles, watching all the people with their lights and glowsticks and running in little circles between my legs.

The starting point!

Eating "dinner" while we wait for them to let us run.

The lit arches that we ran through.  They changed color as we ran through them.

Someone offered to take our picture.  So nice, even though Jayden was in the middle of eating a fruit snack.

Bubbles!

Running with the bubbles.  I love this picture too - the blurry color in the background contrasted with Jayden in the foreground is just cool.

Electric Run!
I just missed it, but just before I took this picture a shadow of a mom running with a stroller went across the sign.  It was kinda cool.  I was happily surprised with the number of parents who brought their kids (and strollers) out to the race.  It was fun to see so many kids loving the lights.

Another attraction.  Reflective items suspended above us, with lights flashing on them.

My view of Jayden, checking out the lit up 'brellas hanging from the ceiling above us.

Dancing at the after party.  I tried really hard to get video of him dancing, because he was getting down, but the lighting was so bad I couldn't get it.  I'm a little afraid we're going to have a little raver on our hands.  :)
Jayden kept trying to move the stroller closer to the mob of people in front of the stage and I kept having to convince him it was better for him to have space to run in his circles.  As it was he ran into one of the volunteers and fell smack on his bottom.  He did get us a handful of glowsticks out of it - which is what he was dancing with in this picture.  

Mama and Jayden after the race.  He was not so happy about being in the picture since it stopped him from dancing and running - this was as clear a picture as was possible.