so, the twits turned 5 today. we kicked off the day with… them sleeping in. monkeybeef was actually the first one up, so he got the daily box of reese’s peanut butter puffs all to himself… for a few minutes.
presents included some pirate and spiderman megabloks, and spongebob and star wars legos. i swear we put everything together correctly. however, a week later, spaceman spongebob has teamed up with sandman to stage a mutiny on the flying dutchman. it actually meshes quite well, given that there’s a whole water/boats/pirates/davy jones/flying dutchman crossover thing between spongebob and pirates of the carribean, and the sandy cheeks spaceship fits into the whole star wars spaceship thing. spiderman is just learning how to swim.
so after a few hours of removing twist ties, we got down to bidness:
other presents included new lightsabers (because who has enough of those? nobody!), puzzle books, a 3-letter-word-spelling game (which quickly got the rules changed to allow for words like “jedi,”) some totally sweet pokemon hats and gloves (the hats are OFFICIAL POKEMON LEAGUE HATS. just ask EG!) and this build-your-own “saxophone” thing – seussian fun at its finest! with three mouthpieces, three horn pieces, and about 50 twists and turns and intersections, the three older boys have managed to make everything from a 5-foot-long sax to a three-man sax.
they’ve been playing it every day. and yes, they can play all of their favorite songs on it, including bad boys and
brass monkey.
and while we’re doing movies, here’s a few more: jedi moves 1, jedi moves 2, and “baby so excited by the excitement that he can’t hold his shit together any more.”
then there was cake. star wars cake. with fire!
dinner was an ethiopian feast, followed by ice cream cones. for the special occasion, they got to have as many maraschino cherries as they wanted. dramaqueen managed to balance four on top of his, making me think he might kind of rock at jenga.
after dinner, the three younger boys crashed…
(…sort of….)
while EG and i finished up our game of “pokemon master trainer.”
(i might eventually correct his throwing the horns… then again, i might not!)
it’s a really elaborate strategy game, and actually ranks pretty high on my list of games – close to lord of the rings risk. it’s also a very involved game – miraculously, that game survived an entire day on the kitchen table, through all the food-slinging and present-opening and move-busting, without a single piece getting jostled out of place. and then EG beat my ass at it. so then i sent his ass to bed. HA! ultimately, i won.
