Bad Guys Have Birthdays, Too.

Flying Ninjas are Bad Guys. And they have birthdays…

…with other bad guys. And one Super Bad Girl.

They do Bad Guy things

and eat Bad Guy food, like Bad Guy Beasties, Birthday Bombs and Bad Guy Beverages (a distilled combination of garbage, slug spit and gutter water).

(Oh, and their moms still make them birthday cakes, even though they’re Bad Guys.)

They go Bad Guy places

and pillage for Bad Guy Birthday Loot.

And now that they’re five, they (according to the Bad Guy Birthday Boy)

1) don’t cry anymore,

2)don’t need help reaching things anymore,

4) can help put heavy things in the grocery cart now because they’re strong

and,

3) have long legs.

Happy Birth Week, Bennett, and congratulations on all of the above perks of being Five.

The Manliest of Merry

It looks so innocent….

until you peer underneath the tree in a house of boys on Christmas morning.

Guns, snakes, bad guys, remote controls…

Merry Christmas, indeed.

Thank you, Santa!

Christmas Face

Of all the contortions the human face is capable of performing, my new favorite is

The Christmas Face.

Unfamiliar with this facial arrangement?

Look closely at our latest family picture:

Notice Bennett’s face?

That’s it. 

The Christmas Face. 

So he says.  And since he says, it is so, simply because I’ve never been introduced to The Official Christmas Face until this year.

I always thought it was this

or this…

the face of one who received Christmas makeup

or the perfect, long-awaited gift…

the look of sheer joy…

surprise…

'”You shouldn’t have”…

“Ah, you know me so well”…

or, “Yes, you definitely should have!  I’ve wanted this forever!”

Silly me.