Michelle’s Day: Luke is 8

Yesterday was Luke's 8th birthday. We started the birthday celebration on Friday with balloons and cupcakes for his class at school.

Saturday morning, we gave Luke got a set of Legos. He's so cute concentrating on those things.

Luke decided that he wanted to play miniature golf with a couple buddies for his birthday party. I hadn't been to Castle O'Malley (as far as I know, our only indoor mini-golf course) in quite a long time. It has SERIOUSLY gone to pot!! (sorry if that's an inappropriate expression, but SHEESH! what a mess that place has become!) The greens are all torn, at least one of the holes is "out of order," there's an INTENSELY offensive odor, the bathroom doesn't seem to have been cleaned in months (the other mom that went with us found that out the hard way), and they were "temporarily" out of score cards! I was wondering why in the world they charged us to be in there!! Luke's friend's older brother found a dead fish in the little fish pond. His mom said it looked like it was starting to decay. We tried to keep the boys away from that area, but they didn't even notice because they were running all over the place whacking the golf balls like little tasmanian devils. When we were ready to leave, I told the attendant about the dead fish. He said, "Really? I just checked them this morning. They looked fine to me."

I said, "They're starting to decay!"

He responded, "I think they're fine."

Okey-dokey :-) Bye!

So just a word of warning -- DO NOT GO TO CASTLE O'MALLEY!!!!

The boys had fun, though, after they got used to the odor.

We had lunch, presents, ice cream, and more playtime at McDonalds. Apparently, Luke's goal was to have the best germ-infested birthday party ever :-) We used quite a lot of hand sanitizer!

After the birthday party, Luke put together his second new Lego set . . .

and his third. Luke loves putting together and taking apart Legos!

After dinner, Luke got some new pajama pants and the first clue to the scavenger hunt that Jason made up for his final gift.

finding a clue:

The gift was waiting at Darryl and Amanda's house. Luke looked around, saw a new mattress and jokingly said, "Oh here it is!" We said, "Yep! Happy birthday!!" He was a little disappointed. Here's his pouty butt:

and his pouty face:

But he got happy about his gift when he realized how great it would be to sleep on a super-soft normal mattress instead of the thin little bunkbed mattress he's had for the last six years.

We had ice cream/chocolate chip cookie sandwiches for the birthday dessert.

The birthday celebration continued today with all of the Hofacker/Nelson crew. We had lunch, more gifts, (yes, his hair is red and purple -- there was hair painting in kids' church today. my kids got new orders today -- NO PAINT ON ANY PART OF THEM!!)