Fear and Loathing in the Backyard

Earlier this week I had a little birthday party for Lemon Boy. I invited just a few of his friends and their moms, who happen to be my friends as well, lucky me! It was lovely, although the weather wasn't as nice as it has been, we played outside and the kids enjoyed bowling Angry Birds style. I will post pictures once all of Lemon Boy's parties are over (that's right, around here we celebrate birthdays multiple times, it's how we roll)

Towards the end of the evening the kids were all busy pouring water from the kiddie pool into the sandbox and us Moms were lounging on the deck, chatting away. At that moment I happened to look down and there, on my shoulder, was a spider. Eeek! Even their name makes me cringe! I calmly swatted it away FREAKED OUT and in my haste to get that horrid thing off of me, my hand came up and smacked me in the face.Hard.

My friends were, needless to say, a little taken aback and one of them kindly sent that spider into oblivion. It was then that we noticed my nose ring was gone. Yup, that spider scared me so bad I slapped my nose ring right out of my face. Ha ha! So funny, kind of but not really, my nose is actually is pretty sore. Further proof that those things are truly evil and out to get me. I know, I know, they are God's creatures, He made them for a purpose, etc. Well when I get to Heaven that will be one of my first questions. Why on earth did you make those things?! I'm sure His answer will be perfectly divine and all will be made clear but until that day I will loathe and despise those little nasties.

Now Lemon Boy got some money from one of his friends for his birthday and on Tuesday he went with his Dad to Toys R' Us to pick out a new toy. What do you think that kid came home with??

Ummm, yes. A remote control Tarantula.

Really, an hour spent walking around the toy store, looking through literally thousands of toys and he picks a toy spider.

His mother is not impressed.  

Could that be why he chose this particular toy?

lovely

my nose hurts

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