Kyle had a birthday today! But before we could celebrate his birthday as a family, we had to go to pack meeting. Pack meeting tonight was an obstacle course set up around the church for the kids to race through. When that was over, they announced that they had something special planned for Kyle for his birthday. I actually heard one of the leaders talking about it, and was told that I might want to take Kyle’s phone from him so it wouldn’t get damaged. Kyle was, of course, concerned when I asked him to give me his phone. He knew I had mine and that I can’t use his because I don’t know his password, but he gave it to me anyway. Then they let all the boys throw water balloons at him!
Kyle tried to get some of the kids back by opening up the spray bottle and throwing water back, but I think he was fighting a losing battle. At least he was a good sport about it. 😉
After pack meeting we got to go home for cake and presents. Kyle requested a watermelon cake. The kids have been asking for this a lot too. I’ve made banana cake, carrot cake, strawberry cake, strawberry lemonade cake, chocolate cake, pumpkin cake, apricot delight cake, pina colada cake….I guess to them there is nothing I can’t do. I kept telling the kids that you can’t make a watermelon cake. Watermelon is too watery, and the flavor isn’t strong enough to be present after you add all the flour and sugar and other stuff. Finally I googled it, and found a watermelon cake, that was a new concept for me. I had been thinking CAKE! Flour, sugar, butter, eggs….that kind of cake. The cakes I found when searching for watermelon cake, was just a hunk of watermelon served just like cake. So that is what Kyle said he wanted, and that is what I made for him. 🙂
As for presents, I had one to give him. Actually I feel kind of lame about it, but he doesn’t really need anything, and doesn’t want a whole lot right now. We have a lot of stuff, and I didn’t want to just buy him more STUFF, so I went practical. I gave him a package of new socks. I’ve been throwing away his socks as I find them all holey in the laundry, and he has nearly run out of socks. For awhile he just thought I wasn’t doing enough laundry to keep on top of getting enough socks through, but it just boiled down to me throwing away worn socks and he was just running out of them. 😉