Guess What?

I'm going on an adventure.  I'm getting on a plane, and leaving The SM with The Native's for a few days.  I'll tell you all about it when I get back!!

A Whole Lotta Sugar!

This Native doesn't understand what is wrong with this picture.  Besides the goofy look on his face......  I can remember doing the same thing when I was his age.  I'd add a little cereal to my sugar.......

Levi is a TEN!

Levi's party.  We took him to "Chuck-E-Cheese".  Land of arcade games and cheap horrible tasting pizza.  (Secret:  I like the pizza.  The SM being from Chicago land of real pizza finds this piece of information disappointing.)

There's entertainment.  A stage is set up with robotic characters that talk and sing.  When we sat down, several of The Native's said they didn't want to sit there because those things were freaky!  I agreed.  But made them sit there anyway.

Arcade games means tickets.  Put in a token, play the game, and out pops tickets.  Tickets are good.  We want lots and lots of tickets for prizes later.

Levi and Mr. J's friend wasn't about to let his tickets out of his sight.

Mr. B is showing all of the tickets he is winning by giving us 'the smolder'...........

Another of Levi's friends.  When we asked Levi who he wanted to come to his party he said, "Mr. B, Mr. D., and Cocoa......... their dog.........  Mr. B and Mr. D came, Cocoa had to stay home.  We told Levi Cocoa's mom wouldn't let her come play.  Way better to put the blame on the neighbor.....

The Native's watching the 'freak show' up on the stage..........

Tokens.  The Native's and Levi's friends each got 40 tokens to go and play on the arcade machines with.  Here's where you all get teary eyed and get out your tissues.  Levi's siblings decided to put all of their tickets together that they'd won and give them all to Levi.

Do you blame them?  How can anyone resist this freckly faced, shirt on backwards, cute little boy?  We can't!  We don't even try.  It's impossible!

Here's "Chuck" himself.  I'm going to call him "Chump".  I got kinda mad at him but thought I'd keep it to myself.  When several of The Native's came up to me and felt the same way.....  I knew I wasn't over reacting because we all know, I don't over react to anything!

Henny Penny...........  still watching 'those freaky things'!

See the freaky things on the stage behind "Chump"?  I know, hard to see them because we are all looking at Levi who is up dancing with "Chump-Cheese".  Everyone is looking except "Chump-Cheese" who didn't acknowledge Levi the entire time we were there...........  Okay, so here's the deal.  "Chump-Cheese" comes out and talks to and sings with and dances with kids who are having birthdays..........  WHO RESERVE A PARTY THERE!  There was a child there who had reserved a party the table next to ours.  "Chump-Cheese" came out and stood in front of the this kids table and does 'his thing'.  Only, it's also Levi's party and considering how much we paid to be there.......... heaven forbid we didn't get 'the party package'........  we had already took out a second mortgage on the house for what we paid for.........  So, "Chump-Cheese" does his thing and as I said, didn't acknowledge Levi for one second.  Levi waved to him, he stood there and smiled at him, he went up and danced next to him............  nothing.  No high five........ nothing.  I WAS SO TICKED!

After "Chump-Cheese" left to mingle with other kids (completely ignoring Levi as he walked past him) to mingle with the kids out in the arcade, Henny Penny and some of the other Native's came up to me and said, "That is so sad....... he ignored Levi"!  Yeah.  We were all a little upset.  All because we didn't have a 'reserved' sticker on our table..........

Whew!  Glad I got THAT out of my system...........  Let's all just take a deep breath and have a drink.

Mr. B followed Levi around the whole time helping Levi play games.

Mr. M winning more tickets for Levi.  It's a tough job winning so many tickets as you can see.

Mr. B, Levi's friend is ready to go and cash in his tickets.  Wait till you see what he got with his......

But first......... check out Mr. J.  He's having a hard time winning tickets too as you can see.

And don't ask me what this is..........

I don't even want to think about the germs that are in that thing with so many kids putting their heads under that!

More ticket winning..............

The SM.............. showing love and affection............

Scarf Kid with the freak show behind him.  "Thanks mom"!  He says to me when I giggle because of the background.

Don't these kids just look miserable winning tickets?

The prize that was chosen.  Mr. B wanted a sucker.  He worked on that thing all night.  I wonder how many days it lasted.....

Mr. D shooting hoops.

Mr. B and Mr. T figured out how to cash in big time getting tickets from this game.

The man of my dreams, the man who rocks my world, the man who fills my dreams, the man who keeps us all afloat, The SM.

Time to cash in the tickets!  All of the siblings come together and Levi starts to feed tickets into the ticket counting machine.

And he keeps feeding..........

And feeding................

Hey!  Did you know if you pull on a stink pot's ear his blue tongue pops out?

And keeps feeding....................

One thousand one hundred and one tickets!  I'm sure some math teacher some where will tell me I just typed that number wrong........

First item chosen..........  any guesses??  A gum ball machine.  Did you really think the gum ninja would pick something else???

So much to choose from.  After the gum ball machine was chosen, who cares about the rest of the tickets!

Back home for cake and ice cream.  Don't be makin' fun of the candles.  The Mum has a habit of forgetting to buy birthday candles.  Birthday candles are highly over rated.........

The first cut!  Birthday child always gets to cut the cake and gets the first piece.

This is for this child's mother.  Notice the frosting up in his hair.

Mr. J is checking out the art work.

Now THAT is a Mr. B smile if ever I saw one.  You have to know the child but this is a signature smile.

Present time!  I promise!  It was wrapped!  Levi unwrapped it before I got a picture taken.....  it has NOTHING to do with the fact that all of his gifts from us were wrapped in left over Christmas wrapping paper........  nothing.......

Oh yeah baby!  Water balloons.  What could be better than balloons?  Water balloons!!

Gifts from Levi's friends.  A rubber alligator.

And gum.  It wouldn't be a Levi party without gum.

Henny Penny made this herself.  It is so cute.  She took an old spice jar and filled it with glitter and water.  A snow globe!

McDonald's money from grandpa and grandma!

Finally!  A new wagon.  Haven't had Levi wagon pulling photos for a long time.  Not since the first wagon got busted and the one after that.  We're hoping this one lasts a bit longer............

And back to the rubber alligator................  for the birthday boy with blue frosting on the front of his backwards shirt.  Happy Birthday Levi!  We all love you so much!!

It's Levi's Birthday!

Family Newsletter

Before going to bed last night, I found this stuck to the wall in the hall upstairs

It says, "If you want you can take it off of the paper clip and look at  it, but when you're done put it back".  

I took it off and here is what the rest of it says:

The Rubow News

By Henny Penny

The family members


Mr. J:  a spunky 6 year old boy who loves to make friends.

Levi:  an 10 year old handicapped boy who loves to make up jokes.

Henny Penny:  a cute, awesome, messy 11 year old girl who lives with 6 brothers.

Mr. M:  a funny 13 year old boy who loves electronects.

Mr. C:  a halarious 14 year old boy who loves to play with Mr. J and Levi.

Mr. T:  a strange 16 year old boy who loves to miss school.

Mr. B:  an epic 18 year boy who loves to be on his own.

Mom:  an awesomely - epic 37/38 year old woman who loves to play on facebook.  (Huh?  Whu??)

Dad:  an epicly - awesome 43 year old man who loves to help others.

FLIP OVER

Who's on Vacation?

Mr. B and Mr. T are on Spring break, and are spending it playing on electronics.  If I were on spring break, I would spend it at my friend's house.  Dad is gone to Minnasota.  We sure miss him, espesillay Mom, she keeps blaming things on him.  I guess thats just what Moms do!  I know I'll be like that!

Birthdays

We have one birthday this week and it is Levi.  His b-day will be on Friday the 16th.  We'll be very excited when that day comes, won't we?

Mom speaking:  And there you have it!  Apparently Dad is more epicly awesome than my awesomely epicness because he helps others all day and I just sit on Facebook.............  and that whole blaming Dad thing........ we all know girls don't pass gas........... who else am I supposed to blame???  Everyone else denies it!