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Dylan completes his 9th year

That's right folks, my first born turned 9 and it has taken me almost a week to comment. There are not as many pictures for a Dylan fest as there are for Caitlin. This is what happens when I try to photograph my son:
or sometimes this:
 And rarely these days I get this:
Some things never change and Dylan is still a boy of deep passions. The object of his passion changes quickly but the fervor is always recognizable. At age 9 the passions are: Nerf guns, Lego, Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, and a video game called minecraft. And also gum. 5 gum to be exact (that's a brand of gum, for the uninitiated.) 

For his party this year he invited 4 friends for a sleep over. There was a huge Nerf gun fight in the back yard followed by a good amount of Wii. There was a short break for dinner: KFC with mashed potatoes, gravy, biscuits and grape soda. (Dylan's current favorite meal. Go figure.) There was an ice cream cake and then more Wii. We followed that with a screening of the Percy Jackson movie. At the end of the movie it was kind of late and we told the boys to start thinking about sleep. We thought sleep might come faster if we took the remotes for the Wii, t.v. and dvd player out of the room. They are resourceful however and lacking electronics they began to beat each other with pillows. Around 1 am one of them had the bright idea to tell ghost stories. Dylan told me later that one story was so scary that they decided they needed to sleep in shifts, with one kid acting as the look out for the group. 

Early the next morning they were up and ready for more fun. They requested paper and pencils to write down secret plans they were formulating. They were funny and polite and mostly quiet. But most importantly they didn't ask to go home at 3 a.m.  Then they ate pop tarts and went home. They left a trail of pop corn kernels and the strong scent of 5 gum in their wake.







For his actual birthday we celebrated at home with pizza and left over ice cream cake. He got one or two gift- including a 10 gallon fish tank for his latest passion: fish owning. But I think that's its own blog post.

Happy Birthday Dylan! 




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Sandy said…
I love the sleeping in shifts! I can totally remember getting scared and not wanting to sleep...wait, that was after hanging out with Ken at King Henry...but I remember it from slumber parties too!
December 5, 2011 at 10:52 AM
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