Shoot! Score!

First, here's the video of Simon waking up to his birthday balloons... apparently, the balloons were just too tempting because no sooner did we hear him stirring, than we opened the door to find him out of bed. ;)


This gift is as much of a hit as the globe was on Ben's birthday. He has been playing NONSTOP today, except for when we had to go take Ben to school and pick him up. We also stopped by Lakeshore to play and read stories, which he loved, but was happy to leave without protest when I mentioned we could go home and play with the basketball hoop. ;)

Here he is seeing it for the first time! Ben of course, immediately got to work on trying to convince him to hand over the ball or switch balls with him. (so excuse my obvious annoyance)





For the record, this basketball hoop, while wonderfully sturdy and well made, is WAYYYYYYY bigger than it looked in the picture on Amazon. Holy heck. NO idea where we are going to keep it. We couldn't even get it into his room for the traditional morning birthday surprise! Ah well, I guess it just means lots more stuff is going in the attic!! :P