Birthday!

Last weekend, we helped celebrate a birthday. My oldest nephew is 8!

The festivities were held at a local (to them) pizza place. In addition to the family, Nephew had two of this friends come join us. It was pretty obvious pretty fast that these two were brothers. They walked in, grabbed a slice of pizza and started slapping each other. They never stopped grinning while they were doing it, either.

Nephew quickly got placed between them, in the hope that this would calm things down. Instead, they just started leaning around him in order to swat at each other. It wasn't long before Nephew (also with a permanent grin on his face) was shouting, "I don't wanna be in the middle any more!". In all of this, the boys never stopped giggling.

One of nephew's presents was a robot coin bank. When you push a button, the robot speaks and moves. I'm not sure what all of his actions are. I just know that when I hit the button, the robot hiked a leg and let out a massive ... well, let's call it a "ripping" noise. Then the robot announced, "Oh!, that's gonna linger a while."

I cried real tears laughing at that one.

Happy Birthday, Nephew!