Oliver's 7th Birthday!

Oliver's 7th birthday was a whole 3-day weekend o' fun. Friday night we had pizza and watched Spider-man 3. Saturday, he opened presents from Mom, Dad and brothers and we all had brownie-blackberry-ice cream sundaes. Sunday, we went to the Great Wolf Lodge to play at the indoor waterpark.

An Erector set from Mom & Dad. It's quite the project. It has nuts, bolts, screws and a tiny little open-ended wrench and a little Allen wrench. He works on this thing for a few hours each day and rarely asks for help. I inspect his work after he goes to bed to see if he needs to re-do anything. So far, he's only had to correct a couple of things. I'm pretty proud of him. Brian is completely awed because he never had the patience for projects like this as a kid.

Outside the Great Wolf Lodge.

Part of the indoor water park. I didn't take my camera in there for fear it would get wet.

The Northern Lights Arcade.

Oliver and Owen exchanged their arcade tickets for whoopie cushions. You can see by the look on Oliver's face how much he enjoyed his. This was their introduction to the W.C. Oh the joys of two boys with whoopie cushions!

This is the Clock Tower at the GWL. They run an animatronic show three times a day. Looks promising, doesn't it? IT WAS SO LAME!!! I'm pretty easily amused and I nearly fell asleep 2 minutes in. So when I tell you it was weak, you better believe it. The boys also thought it was boring. The chorus to their song (possibly the worst ever written) was, "There's nothing to be scared of here." Good lord. Oliver cracked up when I sang, "There's nothing to be scared of here, except for this bad song."