The kids were completely surprised. We walked into the house and L, the 7 year old boy, was sitting on the couch. He saw difficult child and just sat there and stared at him for a minute before smiling and saying, "You're not in jail" like we were trying to trick him. LOL Of course then he launched himself at difficult child and didn't let go for a little bit. His sister M heard the comotion, came into the room and made a nice little leap herself. It was fun!
After his little field trip though, difficult child had to call us twice to try to get us to get him out. The no leaving for two weeks thing is putting a hamper on his "have to do this right NOW" plans, he doesn't like it, he knows what he needs to do, he needs to get out and advertise for his comedy act blah blah blah.
This is going to be fun.