Pool Party!

Well, we turned the Lemur boy 7 this weekend. He decided that he wanted a pool party so we picked a new kids pool at the all powerful Wal-Mart and invited some friends. Kitten had worked down on my basement computer and printer to print up some invites. I discovered the trial prints still in there where she was working out how to center the text just right on the decorative paper.

We let Lemur decided on what was going to happen at the party and he thought one of the games should be Super Soaker tag. So we armed one of the kids with a Super Soaker squirt gun and there was much chasing and running and screaming. It was a fun 5 minutes and then the only one enjoying the game was the person who was doing the squirting. That's when the squirt gun was turned on the adults over watching. Game over.

Then we gathered everyone over from some cake and chips. Lemur said we had to have chips, so his favorites were there; Bar-B-Q and Sour Cream and Onion. We also filled his order for RootBeer and Cola Ice Slushies. Then we topped that off with a home-made cake that he wanted to look like a pool. As you can see, we got as close as we could.

Then it was time to blow out the candles. In the end he had to fake the blowing out of his candles. You can see him in the picture "blowing-out" unlit candles. That's because there was a bit of a breeze and we couldn't hardly get the candles lit. Then when we did, Bear would get excited and blow them out for Lemur. So in the end, we sang while he faked. Lemur seemed to still enjoy it.



Then everyone went back to swimming. Bear figured out that if he leaned on the edge of the pool he could make his own little puddle to play in. I think he had more fun in that puddle than he did in the pool. He splashed in it, and sat in it, and lay on his tummy in it. At one point he even started to try and drink from it till all the adults stood up screaming to stop.



All the other kids started to playing around the yard (we had three tiers of kids there; Lemur's age, Robos friends, and Bear), leaving the pool to Bear all by himself which he also enjoyed very much. He ended up shutting down the party too. You can read about that here on Kitten's blog. That boy sure knows how to clear a room.

In the end fun was had by all. Cool presents and good times. It was a beautiful day to run around and splash in the sun till you collapse. Which they did just after. Everyone in the living room in a grumpy huff of after party disappointment (because all the fun stuff is over and the friends have gone). I put in a present DVD, "Chicken Run", and the gang vegged for the rest of the afternoon.

Next day was Father's Day ---Happy Father's Day all you dads out there! We did manly things like go over and have T-Bone steaks at Grandpa's house cooked on the grill. Then that evening while the girls were at rehearsal we did some more living room man bonding. We put in the Star Wars special edition DVD and turned up the sound system till the windows rattled when the space ships zoomed across the screen.

****Geek Moment****

Sad thing was that I was hoping to recapture some of the original thrill after George did his best to kill it with this prequal trilogy that he's just finished. But no--he did his job so well, I can't even watch the original Star Wars now without thinking of the whinny boy Anikin in the suit. It totally undermines how scary and intimidating Darth Vader used to be.

Crap!

There's a rumor going around that George may produce the three movies in what was originally conceived as a trilogy of trilogies---but this time there is the talk that Steven Spielberg would be directing. They better do it. Steven could do it right. That could redeem things I think.

Please oh please let it be true. Give me back my childhood!

****Geek Moment Over*****