Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A very good birthday

Mac woke up as an 11 year-old to his bunk bed festooned in balloons and his bedroom door draped in balloon streamers.
After opening his presents and eating breakfast, we headed off to school. Today was Outside the Box Day, which is an annual event where each grade is assigned an engineering feat to design and develop in a 2-hour period. The highlight for the elementary school kids is when they get to do the Egg Drop in the 5th grade. It was so much fun to watch the whole process and to see the testing, which took place off a ladder fire truck that the city sent in.

Mac and his partner's egg did not survive the drop in their vehicle.

I left school at 11:30, only to return at 1:30 for early release Wednesday.  Mac and I went to see the movie Thor at the really nice theater with the awesome fully-reclining leather seats. I napped until Mac made too much noise trying to suck up all the Icee he was drinking.

We are now home for a bit before heading out to dinner.  The latest I've heard is that we're going to PF Changs, but that's changed from Chic-Fil-A and Mexican in the last hour so it's all negotiable.

I think Mac's had a great day. Thanks for all the well wishes you've each sent him!


1 comment:

Pam said...

Happy birthday to Mac! Looks like he had a very fun day.

And thank you for your comment on Maggie's stitches. Funny that your brother caused yours to re-open (while reading a book to him -- what a boisterous activity!) I am living in constant fear of that very thing happening here!