It's Birthday Week!
I can't believe it's been almost a year. Looking back, it went really fast...this time last year, I was anxiously awaiting the phone call that would send me careening down I-95 to the hospital. And our little guy waited for his due-date, on the weekend. Nice of him. Anyway, of course this means that we are having his party this weekend-- which, in turn, means presents presents presents.
The flood has actually already started-- last weekend , we visited Aidan's great grandmother and great aunt, neither of which will be around for the party. Of course, they gave lots of fun stuff. And we visited friends who can't come too, who gave him even more fun stuff. Add to that the gifts he'll get this weekend, and you have a toybox that has reached critical mass...we need to sort out som of his older toys and put them in his room or we are in danger of creating a rip in the space-time continuum in the living room.
A large part of this is self-inflicted, of course. I think we single-handedly funded the entire gift-wrap industry this year....and Christmas is only a month away. Anyway, during the wrapping frenzy we re-affirmed that we are bad parents. One of his gifts is so large that it would have taken careful oragami-esque manipulation of 2 whole rolls of paper to wrap. So, instead, we assembled it and plan to just drape one roll of paper over it. Let's face it, he won't care-- in fact, unlike most children, he has zero interest in unwrapping gifts OR playing with the paper afterwards. Which, in a way, is good-- at least now people will feel he appreciates the gifts more than the paper they came in.
Speaking of appreciating gifts, I really hope he likes the extra special present I'm getting him on Sunday-- a brand spanking new Nintendo Wii. Just for him. Of course, I'll have to conduct extensive testing on it before he can play with it.
Safety first, you know.
The flood has actually already started-- last weekend , we visited Aidan's great grandmother and great aunt, neither of which will be around for the party. Of course, they gave lots of fun stuff. And we visited friends who can't come too, who gave him even more fun stuff. Add to that the gifts he'll get this weekend, and you have a toybox that has reached critical mass...we need to sort out som of his older toys and put them in his room or we are in danger of creating a rip in the space-time continuum in the living room.
A large part of this is self-inflicted, of course. I think we single-handedly funded the entire gift-wrap industry this year....and Christmas is only a month away. Anyway, during the wrapping frenzy we re-affirmed that we are bad parents. One of his gifts is so large that it would have taken careful oragami-esque manipulation of 2 whole rolls of paper to wrap. So, instead, we assembled it and plan to just drape one roll of paper over it. Let's face it, he won't care-- in fact, unlike most children, he has zero interest in unwrapping gifts OR playing with the paper afterwards. Which, in a way, is good-- at least now people will feel he appreciates the gifts more than the paper they came in.
Speaking of appreciating gifts, I really hope he likes the extra special present I'm getting him on Sunday-- a brand spanking new Nintendo Wii. Just for him. Of course, I'll have to conduct extensive testing on it before he can play with it.
Safety first, you know.
posted by Clueless Dad | 10:19 AM
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