Sheela's official birthday party was yesterday afternoon. Here is a picture of here skating with Tannah. We ended up with nine kids and nearly that many adults (most of whom were too chicken to skate - or who knew how badly cheap skates hurt). After ice skating we went to Sbarro for pizza and cake.
She received a lot of very nice gifts (including CDs and books -- yay!) but the biggest hit of all was seamonkeys. They have evolved beyond the little throw away brine shrimp of my childhood. Evolved is not really the word.... they have been genetically improved to be larger stronger and more exciting. But even better is the extra time and attention put in to their marketing campaign. Now available is a stunning array of seamonkey accessories including the aqualeash, a race track and a portable playpen for taking them for walks.
Sunil was unable to attend as he is still feeling puny. He is off to the doctor this morning. More on that later.
We managed to get the Christmas Tree set up and decorated. We bought a new tree this year, the lights are permanently attached to the tree. At first we gave Mom a hard time for not setting the tree up correctly. The remote control is supposed to turn off and on the white and colored lights independently -- instead it turns the lights on the bottom half of the tree off and does nothing to the top half. In the end we apologized, the remote control included in the package is the wrong one. We expect the replacement today.
Two years ago Mom made us a beautiful tree skirt. It has two cute little kids building a snowman, a bakery, a church, etc and a million pine trees each capped with sparkling snow. I don't have a picture of it at hand (but there will be one on her blog soon). The school house in the village scene was named DeGroot. That was the name of the school where Sheela, Sunil and Blake all went. This year Sheela asked Grammylyn to add another school to represent Anderson Elementary. So last night Mom added a whole extra building. I am pretty impressed!
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