These are some pictures of Cody's 5th birthday. He asked for chicken legs, pasta salad, cucumbers, mango and orange juice with limes for his special dinner. His shark cake was a disaster. He loved it, so that is good, but it seriously looked like a weird sea turtle serpent blob. The walking blocks that Jacob made him were cool, but so far I seem to be the only one who can walk very far with them. So Jacob has this monster hand from a Halloween costume and he put it on his sword today and asked me to tie all the fingers down except one with string. I was busy getting ready for dinner and such, so I didn't pay much attention to which finger I was leaving up. As you can see from the picture, I probably didn't make the best choice. Mike pointed it out when he got home and I couldn't believe it. It was funny. The kids have no clue so it doesn't really matter that he's flipping the bird in the picture. The picture of Cody with the basket is him hoarding all his gifts after everything was over.
For our special memorial day dinner we ate what we were told to. My dad said to serve ribs, corn on the cob, grapes and Hawaiian punch, because the boys like all of those things. Mike cooked some in the oven and some on the bbq, and Cody said the ones from the bbq were as tough as tires. I took Jacob's stitches out and he didn't take it as well as I thought he would. There was much crying. Cody is growing his hair out and modeled for these pictures. He said he wants it really long, which means we will see how far I can go until I can't stand it and cut it off. The weather was weird, it rained for most of the day, but we went walking on the greenbelt anyway, and the sun came out for the evening. It was actually kind of neat. We were talking about rocky mountain oysters, and I told the boys what they actually were. Mike said he would try them, and Cody says, "Yuck, would you want to eat my testicles?!"
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