We had a great time at SpiderMan's party on Friday. We had our stew, as requested by 7-year-old SpiderMan, and some great conversation. Part of that great conversation occurred when we overheard ScienceBoy say something about a pompadour to SpiderMan. (Remember that ScienceBoy is 9.) So, we asked ScienceBoy if he knew what a pompadour was. His response was: It's when your hair is all up over on one side like Elvis's hair. What 9-year-old boy knows that?! He then proceeded to tell us that his teacher was worried that kids today were only learning things from the computer and television and so she had them look up things from the dictionary and encyclopedia. He had five verbs and two nouns to look up. Way to go teacher!
We always do "heavy, heavy hangover"when we open presents. (For those of you who are uniformed - we sing/say "Heavy, heavy hangover thy poor head. What do you wish this person with a bonk on the head?" and the giver bonks the receiver on the head with the present. The receiver then gives the giver a wish.) SpiderMan was pretty good with his wishes this year. He wished most everyone a cruise. He also felt the need to add to The Count's and The Countess's wish. Along with the cruise, he wished them a night in a motel. We've had quite a good laugh over that one!
Unfortunately, the night ended rather badly for ScienceBoy. After they went home, he was swinging from his top bunk down to the bottom one and lost his grip and went flying and hit the toy chest - hard - and ended up at the ER getting four stitches. However, ever the optimist, ScienceBoy is now proudly showing off his first stitches. I haven't seen the damage yet, but I'm told it's just in front of his right ear. Oh, the joys of boys!
