Super Hero Night at Chick-Fil-A

Last week, the Chick-Fil-A in Rosenberg had a Super Hero Night, which would be attended by Batman and Spiderman. We talked about it for a few days, and Coop finally decided (the day of) that he'd like to go.

He had LOTS of questions on the way there...

"Will Batman and Spiderman be wearing masks?"

"Will they take off their masks to eat?" "What if there's not room for them?"

(at our table--he assumed they would be sitting down to eat with us.)

I was hoping he would want to wear his Batman PJ's--would make for a cute picture, I thought. But no. PJ's are for bedtime, not Chick-Fil-A. :)

When we arrived, we read on the sign on the door that "Super Cow" would be making an appearance also. Hmmm...We weren't sure what to tell him about this one. (Turned out to be the CFA Cow donning a cape and Lone Ranger type mask.)

We got there before their arrival...ordered our food...sat down and began eating.

He was excited/anxious for them to arrive. When Chris pointed out that they were walking in, he was just plain scared. He calmed pretty quickly, though.

They remained a safe distance away, taking pictures with kids. We talked some more...he was okay, but didn't want to go meet them or take a picture.

Since there were no other activities going on (unless you count the kids' play area, which is one of Coop's favorite reasons to go to CFA),

I was very hopeful he'd change his mind.

Coop finally took Chris up on his offer to go over with him...

with Coop riding on his shoulders, of course.

See how much smaller they look from this perspective? Much less intimidating! (Actually, they were both pretty small guys. Batman's suit was hanging off him!)

Coop managed to get the courage up for high-fives to both superheroes.

He was still a little leary of them when it came to picture time, though.

He pulled the casual, "Oh, my shoulder itches, so I'll have to lean over here to reach it better" move. With that victory under his belt, we went back to eating. Then he got to go in the play area with lots of other rowdy boys. Heaven!

Later though, Super Cow arrived. Notice I have no pictures of him.

That's because Cooper was climbing onto my lap in terror when the huge, upright, masked cow entered the restaurant! That one was a little tough to explain. We tried to remind him of the cows on their commercials/signs.

But, all he could say was, "That's not like Gran & Pop's cows."