What-What?! Week of December 19th

(This is late because I've spent the weekend recovering from my COVID booster, oof)

 Corwin is now 12!

This year I made a junimo cake -- these are little forest spirit guys from a video game he likes.  Chocolate cake with Bonne Maman 4 fruits jam filling, and vanilla buttercream frosting.  Yum!

The EXCITEMENT!

This game Saffron picked out for him is a huge hit -- one of the things I like about it is that the game master rotates each turn, which tends to be a bone of contention when the kids play other, similar games.

Some nicer headphones -- he's been borrowing his brothers since his died recently

We bought him the most 90s thing possible -- a CD player.  With anti-skip, of course!

Music from Grandma.  He has been enjoying playing it on his CD player :)

T-shirt from his Oma -- this is pretty much him to a  T.

This is the soundtrack to the video game that junimos are from.

What-What?! Week of November 7th

 Halloween pictures!  We took about 250 pictures last Sunday, so it's taking a while to go through all of them...  Oz went as a tree, Corey as the grim reaper, Saffron as a flapper girl:

IT'S ALIIIIIIVE!

After dark, the husband and I went outside and messed around...

What-What?! Week of October 31st

Just a few days ago was Saffron's birthday!  She's 14 now, making us parents feel positively ancient.  We had a good day with cake, presents, and lots of video games.  The cake she had is a Swedish princess torte, which was delicious.  We picked up a special musical spinning fireball of death candle thing this year, because it had 14 candles built in!  After blowing out the candles, we discovered that the only way to get it to stop making music was to cut a wire, so we also reenacted all those scenes from movies where you have to figure out which wire to cut, ha!

It really was a bit of a fireball at first!

But after that, it was quite pretty.  The "petals" flip out and then start to spin around slowly.

Yum!

Good haul of presents this year :)

 

This is a pencil case -- Saffron stopped and unzipped ALL FOUR zippers before continuing.

Some colored pencils.  She was delighted :)

Stuffed Isabell plush from Animal Crossing (current favorite video game)

Harry Potter perler bead set

Over the Garden Wall show (dunno very much about this one, just that it's sort of creepy cute, which is right up Saffron's alley)

This is a Hogwarts letter vaccine card holder

Kirby is another favorite video game -- it's been around for decades now and this is a collection of art from the franchise