Month: September 2013

 

Yes, welcome!  After going to the Seattle Symphony’s performance of “The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses,” Jeff decided to have a Zelda-themed birthday party.  EASIEST PARTY EVER.  Especially since Eleanor made the fabulous party decorations (such as the above sign) all by herself.

By the way, don’t forget to put on your Link hat!  (Not the top hat featured in the sign, of course.)

 

 

Make sure you take lots of Red Potion with you before you start your journey (Red Potions restore half your missing hearts in the game) . . .

 

 

. . . . but be careful:

 

 

There’s MONSTERS ahead!  Better take that sword you found on the centerpiece Jeff made.

 

 

And GOOD LUCK ON YOUR QUEST!

 

 

(I’m using the “qwest” sign as a bookmark now.  Love it.)

Here are all the boys “questing.”  It’s the Zelda Battle Quest game on the Nintendo Land game for the Wii U.  The game can have up to 4 players at once, and the levels are short enough that it was easy to rotate them all through.  Don’t they look adorable in their Link hats?

 

 

After your long journey through the land of Hyrule, there is one more thing to do . . .

 

 

In this case, pizza and Triforce Cupcakes!

 

 

D’awwww.  Ain’t he a sweetie?  Many parents have since reported to me that their sons constantly wear their Link hats now.  Totally worth the time spent making them.

 

It’s always the same . . . I’m exhausted by the homework routine by the end of the school year, thinking, “I can’t wait for the freedom of summer to rejuvenate me!”  But then, after having all four kids home all summer, I think, “I can’t wait for school to start.  We can have structure in our day and it will rejuvenate me!”

Ha.

I’m going to miss these kiddos.  It’s been a very fun summer.  And I obviously need to start cross-posting my Facebook stuff, since none of it is showing up here.  SO HERE YOU GO:

 

Katie insisted that Brian make her a lunch in a lunch box to carry to the school bus.  She was understandably miffed that she wasn’t allowed to board.  Fortunately, the sainted grandmother Kathryn is visiting right now, so hugs all around.

 

Jeff is in 5th, Eleanor in 3rd, and Wimmy is in 1st.  Katie starts preschool tomorrow, yoiks.

And, of course, the school cones.  I felt bad this year because I didn’t find many cute things to put in them — just a few glittery pencils and some candy.  But you know what?  They loved them anyway.  I even found orange Tic-Tacs for Jeff, and he was overjoyed.  “This is my favorite kind of small candy!”  (As opposed to his favorite big kind, Kit-Kat.)  Eleanor proudly noted that this was the first year she untied the school cone, instead of ripping into the tissue paper.  Milestones, milestones.