Last night we camped. Sure it was the backyard but we still got to experience the joys of tent slumber or lack thereof. I was happy when the morning came.
With the coming of morning came the celebration of Andy's birth. Seven years, hard to believe my baby boy is seven. The time goes so fast. He opened presents first thing this morning, well second thing. First, in harmony with proper camping etiquette he started the day by rolling out of the tent and peeing on the tree. So presents, he had patiently waited to open these presents for most of the week so I offered no objection. He was excited about the few things he received and enjoyed play time with everything throughout the day. We had a great day.
We have some exciting seven year old objectives now like buckling himself into the car, holding his own tooth brush while brushing his teeth (the dentist told us last year that I should help with this still - does everybody do that? Natty and Jack have been on there own for a while...), sleeping in his own bed, walking himself into class at school... I am sure there is more.
Oh, the party. I hadn't planned a party. We had only planned the campout and didn't discuss anything regarding a friend party. I got a call from a parent of a classmate yesterday asking about the party. Andy made his own plans and had invited a few people over. I tried to convince him that we needed to send out invitations etc. but that was a faulty argument, he had allready invited and was determenined. So, I asked who he had invited, it was a small list - Jack Taylor, Anna, Annie, and Jake across the street. We managed to pull it together and even invited a few more cousins and family members. He was a happy boy.
For the last few weeks I continually heard stories from Andy about Minecraft. The boy is mildly obsessed. Well, what better way to celebrate his birthday then with a Minecraft inspired cake? I had an idea of how to pull it off and went back to my trusty rice crispy treats for crafting... thank you cake boss. Jack likes to talk about having a block or square ache after playing Minecraft for a while, after crafting and working with tiny squares of rice crispy treats one can easily experience block induced aches. It really wasn't that bad and went together just fine. The tree's, not quite Minecraft worthy but they sufficed. I could have incorporated some toothpicks to reinforce but we didn't worry about it. The zombie never made it in, no animals either and though the boys talked about several different types of earth and a mulititude of different colors we stuck with one look, well, two with the ocean. Next time we'll give ourselves more than 30 minutes to craft the cake and see what kind of craziness we can come up with. Andy was happy with what we had.
With the coming of morning came the celebration of Andy's birth. Seven years, hard to believe my baby boy is seven. The time goes so fast. He opened presents first thing this morning, well second thing. First, in harmony with proper camping etiquette he started the day by rolling out of the tent and peeing on the tree. So presents, he had patiently waited to open these presents for most of the week so I offered no objection. He was excited about the few things he received and enjoyed play time with everything throughout the day. We had a great day.
We have some exciting seven year old objectives now like buckling himself into the car, holding his own tooth brush while brushing his teeth (the dentist told us last year that I should help with this still - does everybody do that? Natty and Jack have been on there own for a while...), sleeping in his own bed, walking himself into class at school... I am sure there is more.
Oh, the party. I hadn't planned a party. We had only planned the campout and didn't discuss anything regarding a friend party. I got a call from a parent of a classmate yesterday asking about the party. Andy made his own plans and had invited a few people over. I tried to convince him that we needed to send out invitations etc. but that was a faulty argument, he had allready invited and was determenined. So, I asked who he had invited, it was a small list - Jack Taylor, Anna, Annie, and Jake across the street. We managed to pull it together and even invited a few more cousins and family members. He was a happy boy.
For the last few weeks I continually heard stories from Andy about Minecraft. The boy is mildly obsessed. Well, what better way to celebrate his birthday then with a Minecraft inspired cake? I had an idea of how to pull it off and went back to my trusty rice crispy treats for crafting... thank you cake boss. Jack likes to talk about having a block or square ache after playing Minecraft for a while, after crafting and working with tiny squares of rice crispy treats one can easily experience block induced aches. It really wasn't that bad and went together just fine. The tree's, not quite Minecraft worthy but they sufficed. I could have incorporated some toothpicks to reinforce but we didn't worry about it. The zombie never made it in, no animals either and though the boys talked about several different types of earth and a mulititude of different colors we stuck with one look, well, two with the ocean. Next time we'll give ourselves more than 30 minutes to craft the cake and see what kind of craziness we can come up with. Andy was happy with what we had.
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