Happy 10th Birthday, Jackson! As soon as I get my scanner working, I’ll add the first 5 years. Until then, enjoy…
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The boys like animals… they’ve been asking for pets ever since we found a new home for our beloved Emma. (photo is of Jackson with Emma in August of 2005) We decided they could each have their own pet once they turned 10, with lofty hopes for them to care for their own pet - on their own. The first 10th birthday has come up much quicker than we anticipated and Jackson decided he wanted a parakeet. So, we did some research and he read 3 books from the library about caring for a pet bird.
We found a great deal on Craig’s List and jumped at the opportunity - hence the early birthday present. Meet Splish & Splash. For the first few days we enjoyed watching the parakeets in their cage or flying around the room, trying to get away from us. But yesterday we clipped their wings, so now we can hold them and hopefully they’ll get more comfortable around us. Happy 10th Birthday, bud - welcome to the world of responsibility.
Tonight is shower night… we try to get that in at least every other night at a minimum. Elias suggested we establish a new shower night pattern (he is learning patterns in school) - ‘no shower night, no shower night, shower night’. This new recommended pattern would have put off shower night until tomorrow. We went back and forth on the pattern for a while and the more he, Jen & I said it out loud the more it sounded like something other than getting clean by standing under falling water, applying soap and doing it at night.
Go ahead, say “shower night” several times out loud.
Soon it starts to sound like a cleaning product. Or a laundry detergent. Or a bonding agent like super glue. Or a disco star from the 70’s. Or an alternative super hero. I tried on several voices and soon the new character sounded like a leader from the black panther party of the 60’s. Needless to say, him and I had a great time being silly in the car during the drive. Our new character certainly wears a shower curtain and has soap-on-a-rope either as a weapon or a magic amulet around his neck.
One thing we did figure out, Shower Night is definitely the unknown twin of M. Night (Shyamalan)