Mr. Too-Too – the #1 supreme bad guy who needs to be fought at our house

Eye-Bye – some sort of monster that comes in and “breaks stuff” (according to Aiden)

Strong-Bong – a character that Aiden often plays…who is, as you might guess, very strong

Flump Ball – an app on my iphone that Aiden enjoys playing while we wait in line for Logan at school. I have no idea what it’s actually called as I think Flump Ball is a better name anyway

Baby & Daddy – one of Logan and Aiden’s favorite games. Logan is daddy and Aiden is baby. They play things like “baby and daddy go on vacation” or “baby and daddy have a sleep over”. When they play this game, Brady is the dog. In fact, he will hear the older boys talking about playing “baby & daddy” and will immediately run away yelling, “I the dog!!”

Yesterday’s Self-Appointed Names: Frisbee Boy (Logan), Strong Bong (Aiden…see above) and Bubba Baby (name given to Brady by Logan)

Things I’ve learned from the above list: we have some “boyish” boys in our house (is that the opposite of “girly-girl”?) Anyway, they like to play good guy/bad guy a lot. Also, I think we’ve all mastered rhyming..

And now we turn to costume news: Tuesday afternoon, Logan decided that he wanted to play scuba diver with his mask and snorkel. I thought this would be a good time to pull out the scuba-tank “craft” I had in the back of my head. Logan had, at one point, requested a scuba birthday party so I saved a good amount of 2-liter bottles and planned this as a party activity. By the way, we don’t usually drink 2-liter bottles of anything so I was making a special effort. He changed his mind on the party theme, but I haven’t actually recycled the bottles yet. Anyway, I pulled out my foil, duct tape, scissors and…voila!

I took this picture the next morning (Xmas jammies are still in the rotation)

Wednesday, while he was at school, I ran to Home Depot and got some clear plastic tubing that I used to make a more realistic “regulator”. He was thrilled to see the completed project waiting for him in the car when I picked him up (drawback: it’s sort of gross when he actually breaths into the tube for any extended amount of time…a problem I thought might happen, but one which is easily solved with a quick run under the sink every 20 minutes or so) Surprisingly, Aiden hasn’t been too keen on playing with his scuba tanks and Brady hasn’t demanding that I make him a set quite yet…but, I’m saving 2 bottles just in case. Also, Logan wanted to know why he has 2 tanks instead of 1. I told him he is the dive master and is taking an extra tank on the dive in case anyone else needs help. It’s sort of a good explanation, but the real reason is that 2 tanks just looks cooler…plus they can turn into a jet pack for space flight later if necessary.