They Are Actually Very Strong

So we spent the weekend celebrating my daughter's sixth birthday and I just want you to know that I wish I was six again.

I know this comes as a surprise to many of you, as most of you know me as a totally grown up, responsible, no-nonsense adult. But I am pretty sure that I would be an excellent six year old the second time around.

Anyway, we took my daughter and some of her friends to The Great Wolf Lodge over the weekend and let me just say that spending the weekend at The Great Wolf Lodge is both an awesome way to have fun and an awesome way to blow your life savings. They give you a wristband at check in and it should come with some sort of warning like "Wearing This Wristband May Require A Second Mortgage." Because the wristband is like magic. It's your room key, it's your ticket into the waterparks and it will buy you anything in the resort that you might need - food, souvenirs, beer, ice cream, more beer, more food, etc. The only non-magic part is when all that stuff shows up on your bill when you checkout.

Anyway (again), this place is FANTASTIC. It's a Las Vegas-sized resort with both an indoor and an outdoor waterpark and a multitude of other things that would take me forever to list. Just trust me. If you've got a kid or enjoy acting like a kid, this place rocks.

So we took my daughter and three of her friends there and as you can see below, I had things totally under control for the entire weekend.

They look so innocent, don't they?

Yeah, not so much...

And then when it's time to go, they magically morph back into innocent little do-gooders again...

Anyway, we had a good time and I TOTALLY had everything under control.

If you could celebrate your sixth birthday again, how would you celebrate it?
Jeff

BABES IN JOYLAND
So we heard this song all weekend and it's so brand new there isn't even a video, but I did find this nifty little pseudo video with cutesy lyrics. I was singing it all weekend. The girls were singing it all weekend.

Comments

[Keith Raffel]

Jeff, given your desire to be 6 again, I have the perfect book for you and your daughter to share -- Bea and Mr. Jones by Amy Schwartz. Wait, Jeff. Don't question me. Just get it and read it together.

[Patti Abbott]

Darling pictures. And better that song than The Monkey Dance by the Wiggles.

[James O. Born]

Those are cute girls.

On another note, completely unrelated, I saw The Hangover and realized you and Ed Helms are nearly twins. Great movie.

Jim

[Mary Stella]

If I could be six again I'd be happy with the birthday party that I never got that year because my older brother's early present to me was the chickenpox!

[David Terrenoire]

If I was six again? Would that be six now, or six when I was six?

Because now would be so much better, what with the electricity, indoor plumbing and child-labor laws.

[Becky Hutchison]

What cute kids! They look like they had loads of fun.

If I were six again now (2009 and during the summer) I'd buy lots of ice cream, ride arcade rides at the beach, watch fun movies, wear cute sundresses and sandals, and this time around be able to read Babar books in English.

[AlisonGaylin]

Adorable kids! And you know what, Jeff? If I had my sixth birthday to do over again, I'd spend it at the Great Wolf Lodge, with Hannah and her friends, jumping on your head. Love the song!

[Bryon Quertermous]

Screw six. I was nerdy with a bad haircut, noisy corduroys, and an inability to get my parents to buy the right damn Lego set. No way. I say 17 was my best age.

[Karen Olson]

Adorable girls! and those photos with you are so staged.

Six again? I can't remember six except that Maureen Ryan chewed on the bendable knees on my Barbie and she was rendered a cripple for life.

So if I were 6 again, I'd totally want a new Barbie. Preferably tattoo Barbie.

[Lori Armstrong]

What is it with Barbie trauma? A neighborhood kid ripped the arm off my Barbie on my 6th birthday.

What a great thing for you to do for Hannah and her friends...she's a lucky girl :)