BenSpark Family Adventures

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01057 We celebrated Andy’s birthday today. He had a nice birthday and day at school. I took Andy to breakfast this morning at Morin’s where he enjoyed a meat lovers omelet. I took him to school then and ran home to find that Andy had forgotten the food and toilet paper that he was donating to the local food pantry. So I grabbed that and ran back to school. then got some sleep. Tonight we celebrated with some of Andy’s leftover cake from his birthday. Then we gave him his gifts. They were mostly Axolotl themed. I found some cute tshirts, a mask and Allison found a small hand puppet. I also found a very cool Dungeons and Dragons themed Nerf blaster. We’re going to celebrate with birthday dinner tomorrow night.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01056 Today was the Turkey Basket Brigade at America’s Best Defense. The school collects money so that they can make donations of turkey baskets to local organizations in need. We raised enough for 750 baskets. All of those baskets had to be assembled and it took many members of the ABD family to do the assembly. Eva and I went over to help and we each made 5 baskets on our multiple passes through on the assembly line.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01055 Today was Andy’s birthday party. We held it at One Up Games in Plainville, Ma. This location has a bunch of video game systems, some air hockey, pool and also a stand up cabinet system with 10,000 video games. We had about 15 kids at the party and ordered some pizza and Allison made an amazing Minecraft cake and cupcakes. The theme of the party was Minecraft and I figured that the kids would all play together in the game but instead they played all sorts of things. Some played together and some played independently. Eva and I played some air hockey together, too. I even got to play some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games and Spy Hunter on the stand up cabinet. Andy’s favorite game was a virtual reality game, too. This was a great place to hold a birthday party. The people there were very nice. They don’t even bill until they get the final count of kids that came that day, so that was a good thing. I appreciated that a lot.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01054 Occasionally I find funny memes to share with Eva. If she is not right next to me I email them to her. She thinks this is hilarious and very old school. She wonder’s why I don’t just text them to her. So, because she finds it funny I still email them. We’ve joked that I should just print them out for her instead. Tonight I tried to send her this meme and it was from a private site so she couldn’t see it. It was the perfect time for me to print the meme out and give it to her. She was so tickled about it. She laughed so hard and decided that the meme itself will appear on her wall of things. That is what she calls her walls in her room.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01053 Eva had a shadow day at Feehan today and that meant that she was there for the morning shadowing a current student and she was done at 11:20am. Well, since she had the rest of the day off I decided to take her for lunch at Bliss Bros. Dairy. We enjoyed a great lunch and then split a Pumpkin Cake sundae. I wanted the pumpkin Oreo ice cream to go on it but they no longer had it. So, they gave me pumpkin ice cream sprinkled with Oreo pieces. After I picked Eva up we went by the Attleboro Art Museum and picked up the kids’ pottery. The kids did so many nice pieces during their classes. The kids are quite talented and I love that they are checking out more artistic projects all the time.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01052 I received a fun mailer from Sony Pictures movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife with a free bag of mini stay puft marshmallows and a mini stay puft figure. I have been waiting for the movie to be released but I wanted to watch the original with Eva before I went to see it. I think she’d get a kick out of seeing it. We haven’t gotten a chance to go see it yet so there may be time.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01051 Today was dress down day at school and the them was dressing up. Andy wanted to wear his grey suit but the poor kid has grown so much this year that he no longer fits in it. I recently looked through the photos from this past year and he was able to wear it earlier in the year. I guess we did not realize how much he has grown. So, instead he choose the sweater vest and shirt. Eva wore her jacket and vest with her fancy shoes and Allison a beautiful dress. I caught them before they left the house for their day. They had a good day. Andy said that the kids at school thought he was Harry Potter because of the color of the sweater, I guess. Eva described how half the kids in her class were dressed up and how one kid was dressed up for Zoom with nice clothe on his upper half and pajama pants on the bottom. Pretty genius.