I know I was going to post pics of Aiden’s party, but I first had to write about the boys’ current form of summer entertainment: building forts in the basement. This all started with Aiden and our friend Ryan from down the street taking all the “floor tiles” in the basement and building them into cool structures. They worked on a number of forts last week…even adding a “patio” with a grill on it one afternoon. The problem was that the rest of the basement was a royal wreck so they were building these cool things around piles of geotracks, balls, building blocks and other non-sense. Ryan came over to play yesterday afternoon and I convinced them all that we should clean up and make a HUGE area for their forts. I’ll give credit where credit is due and say that Ryan was the best helper in the clean up. However, the 5 of us got it done and now it’s a beautiful area of fort-building creativeness! Ryan and his sister Mackenzie were just here a while ago building smaller forts that surround a “community” area. When they went home for lunch, I took wraps, oranges and lemonade, plus a music player, down for the boys to enjoy. Every so often I hear a fight break out, but for now…they are playing, staying cool, being creative and NOT playing video games :) I’m listening to the music too…right now they are jamming out to The Black Keys.

Fort Town:

community area during lunch time

This is the structure Mackenzie built for herself

Logan’s – covered with blankets from upstairs

Ryan and Brady apparently share this mini fort

Aiden’s fort

Logan and Aiden using the ipad to set up their music on the Sonos player. They were playing selections from Aiden’s party mix.

Brady and Aiden jam out to “Surf Bird” (the b-b-b-bird-bird-bird, the bird is the word….)

Here is Logan’s “surf bird”

He calls this the “papa ooo-mow-mow” part and that finger-thing is supposed to be a mustache. I should tell him that putting his finger there actually means “unibrow”. ha!