Being Five

I recently asked Jonah what he wanted to be when he grew up. "Five" was his cute little response. This is most likely because Noah has just turned five recently. Noah was very excited about turning five and was very excited about his party and gifts which realy were very simple things. Pizza, cake, family (we just had the party in our house with the people in our house) and gifts. The gifts were simple too. There was a helicopter thing which we still haven't been able to work and a couple books, But the highlight was Frozen Easter egg kinder surprise chocolate eggs.
Grace is the best at picking gifts. But the key to the perfect gift is not so much in the gift itself.
It is in the prep work for that gift.

Basically these children have been watching Kinder surprise videos on you tube for the past six months or more. It has been a calming mechanism. Here you want to do something besides wrecking the house or place of business where we happen to be? Zone out in a corner watching these videos with the woman's voice as your mantra. The woman's hands open the eggs (you never see her face.) Basically, these kinder surprise videos have been their religion, and they have been devout monks or at least practitioners.
This is what they have moved onto. Last year it was all about RR Cherrypie.

Basically what I am saying is with the creation of youtube you can actually choose what the craze will be for your kids. That great Christmas gift? What the next THING is? You can decide what that GOTTA HAVE IT item is through the 6 months of prep work. If you wanted it to be a book you might have to make the videos yourself. But the brainwashing is what makes the kids want something. As far as what it is that they want, it could be anything. It could be a pet rock. That really happened.


Anyway when the party sort of died down (I imagine we will still do something this weekend too right?) Noah no longer wanted to be five. He wanted to be four again. I'm not sure if he just misses the party or if he actually has started to want to be younger, while Jonah wants to be older. Well I guess I can get them excited about my birthday instead. After all, just because it's my birthday doesn't mean that we can't gear the party toward them anyway right?