What-What?! Week of May 9th

 Happy Mother's Day! <3

This last week was Osric's birthday -- he is now nine!  We hung out at home this year, playing video games, reading books, and generally just hanging out.

This year, he chose to have ice cream sundaes rather than cake.  His had nine toppings: two types of ice cream, banana, peanuts, chocolate sauce, strawberry sauce, whipped cream, a cherry, and candles (of course!).

Big breath!

You can actually see the smoke coming off in this one

He was very excited for presents

I didn't realize how big this crocodile toy was going to be when I ordered it... for some reason I expected it would be big enough to hold just one pirate, but it actually carries four!

These are some collectible Legend of Zelda cards I got him; the leather booklet is a case for them

Lego Mario accessories!  This was one of the first toys to get played with

Oz was really excited for this book -- the Dungeons & Dragons episode of the show is one of his favorites, and this has a story that plays on that same theme

Donky Kong video game -- this has gotten a lot of play!

What-What?! Week of April 4th

Happy Easter!

This last week, we decorated some eggs!  Rather than dye them, we got out markers and decorated them that way -- surprisingly, my old Sharpies (many years old, like older than some of my children old) still work just fine!

We still have a million eggs to decorate left -- thinking that we may decorate eggs for every major holiday now! xD

Saffron's chicken and my chick

Osric's bunny

Corwin's ghost-lich-demon-thing

Peter made the Hulk

Osric made some lovely cherry blossom flowers

My flowery egg

Some other shots where you can see the other eggs we decorated