Wow! Two days in a row!!!

Asher is in bed, Aidan is spending the night with a friend and I've been wrapping presents while watching the movie Hancock and I thought I would take a few minutes to blog. Trying to get back in the habit. Hmmm, what happened today. Aidan had a 2 hour school delay(the threat of snow is enough to send Alabama schools into a tailspin; and no, we did not have any snow), so it was a very relaxed morning, Asher spent the night last night with Namaw and Pops so it was also a quiet morning, after I dropped Aidan off at school I finished up my Christmas shopping, got a little bit of painting done and it was time to get Asher from the Weaver's and then get Aidan and his buddy Avery from school(they get out early on Fridays). Wow, pretty exciting day so far huh?

The boys wanted to go see our friend Seth who runs Ed's Pet World and has a secret stash of Star Wars toys dating back to the early 80's. His office(which is easily 20ft X 15ft) is wall to wall Star Wars, and I mean wall to wall, he has figures(still in boxes) tacked to every inch of wall space. You name it, he's got it. Really, try me on this one, you name a Star Wars memorabilia and I'm pretty sure he has it, I'll even double check with him. Anyway, this is a favorite place to visit for the boys. Not to mention they get to see all the animals at the pet store. The prairie dog was out and about today so that was a treat, they have 3 turtles that roam the store so it's always fun to try and find them, we only found the big one today and he was asleep. They have a talking parrot that was yelling at the turtle, he also does a fantastic sound effect of a coke bottle opening and fizzing, good stuff. After our trip to the pet store we stopped by a local bakery for cookies so all in all, a pretty good day. My favorite was Aidan's rendition of the Ed's Pet World theme song. It goes like this "Come on down to ....Ed's Pet World....you'll find(fill in with whatever animal) at Ed's Pet World" but in Aidan's version he was filling in with random things, he started off with animals that we actually saw, then "sleeping turtles", "talking parrots", then he filled in with "Avery Anderson", and Avery laughed so hard I thought he would hack up a lung. Maybe you had to be there....

I've posted a few pics of our very own Army of Misfit Toys, thanks to Asher. He saw them all posed on the counter and pointed and started laughing. He has no remorse. One of the nutcracker's head has been glued back on already but I used too much gorilla glue and it oozed out the sides so it looks like his brains are running out. The Santa nutcracker holding the Christmas tree has had his arm and Christmas tree glued back on, all the others I will get to eventually. The other picture is Aidan's elf. He has had this elf for a few years, I don't completely understand the point. Something like the elf is sent by Santa to check up and make sure Aidan has been good. The elf does a few mischievous things around the house every now and then, or so is the story I got from friends who bought these things for their kids. I did not buy the elf, it was a gift(actually, the face on the thing kind of creeps me out). The latest escapade was the elf rolled Aidan's room(rolled it with toilet paper in case you are wondering what I was talking about, is that only a southern thing that bored teenagers do to people's yards?) Aidan was pretty surprised to wake up and find toilet paper strewn around his room.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures and have a great weekend!



Front row: Train missing back wheel, rock em sock em robots ornament missing both robot heads, green nutcracker missing head and beard, bird ornament missing leg
Back row: Moose propped on torn legs, yellow striped hat nutcracker missing a foot, navy and gold nutcracker has the head glued back on that oozed glue, brown nutcracker missing side of hat and the stick is not attached to the hand, tall green and red nutcracker missing hat, Santa nutcracker had arm and Christmas tree re-attached. All this happened since the Sunday after Thanksgiving, how many days till Christmas???