Sam's Birthday Wish-list
Sam is extremely excited about the prospect of his fifth birthday. This excitement began soon after Micah's January birthday and was, I suspect, fueled by well-meaning but misguided older siblings.
My policy is to avoid discussing birthdays until a week before the big day, thereby minimizing expectations. With a bossy older sister and party-lovin' older brother, though, Sam could hardly avoid the birthday hysteria.
One day a couple of weeks ago, Sam wanted me to help him write down his birthday wish-list, so I wrote while he waxed eloquent on the secret wishes and desires of a soon-to-be five-year-old.
The list included:
Hero Factory
Transformer Legos
Lego knight set
Lego Pharaoh Quest
Bionicle star
I'm not completely familiar with all of these items but they seem like what one might expect from a little boy.
What I didn't expect were the following:
cookie maker
tortilla maker
apple muffin maker
pretend medicine
watch (why? he can't tell time yet!)
slippers
And the one that still makes me chuckle: a cookie launcher. What that is or where he got the notion, I do not know, but it's pretty funny.
If anyone knows where to get a good, cheap cookie launcher, please let me know. Maybe Craigslist...?
Then again, maybe I'm thinking too literally and he is talking about computer programming. I always knew I'd give birth to a genius.
My policy is to avoid discussing birthdays until a week before the big day, thereby minimizing expectations. With a bossy older sister and party-lovin' older brother, though, Sam could hardly avoid the birthday hysteria.
The list included:
Hero Factory
Transformer Legos
Lego knight set
Lego Pharaoh Quest
Bionicle star
I'm not completely familiar with all of these items but they seem like what one might expect from a little boy.
What I didn't expect were the following:
cookie maker
tortilla maker
apple muffin maker
pretend medicine
watch (why? he can't tell time yet!)
slippers
And the one that still makes me chuckle: a cookie launcher. What that is or where he got the notion, I do not know, but it's pretty funny.
Then again, maybe I'm thinking too literally and he is talking about computer programming. I always knew I'd give birth to a genius.
well, I can't help you with a cookie launcher, but a few years back DH made some awesome marshmallow guns out of pvc pipe. I highly recommend them for a high fun factor. old post at:http://homeschoolblogger.com/carpebanana/261617/
ReplyDeleteoh, and back to add. My confirmation code was "reducks." Now, isn't that a fun word? "DH reducks his head every time he enters our schoolroom because of the low ceiling."