Happy Birthday Seimi!

Our Seimi turned 7 years old today! We started the birthday celebration yesterday at the Seattle Aquarium. Seimi, being the monster-lover that he is, picked out the biggest, strangest stuffed animal at the aquarium store.

Here's the fish that the hobbitlings have dubbed "Nick Fury"

Seimi and Nick Fury

Seimi on a metal squid (you're getting the drift here - the kid likes monsters)

Eejee with a diver

 

Ela tapping her fins "impatiently".

Boookie getting hot under the collar

Boookie and Ela being silly

Today was Seimi's official birthday and the remainder of the celebration. Daddy and Seimi went to Family Fun Center and spent 4 hours getting their money's worth from all the activities. Laser tag was first up and we lost track of the number of rounds - probably at least 4.

Seimi got the Mayor soaked on bumper boats, so we just did that twice (the second time with a strict "no squirting" rule implemented).

Seimi being goofy on the roller slide at the play area.

Seimi was able to drive the bumper cars himself and enjoyed the privilege of being behind the wheel.

We did two rounds of the world's fastest game of mini golf. Seimi took to sprinting along to see how quickly he could deliver the ball (by hand) to each of the 18 cups.

The best part of the time was probably the go karts. Here's a video of the Mayor and Seimi going around the track. We named all the parts of the track (in case you can't hear the video):

• Porsche Curve
• Daddy Back Straight
• Birthday Apex
• Seimi Straightaway
• Ford Curve
• Audi Curve

While Seimi and the Mayor were off playing, the Hobbit Wife was making an amazing dinner, including tornado potatoes and chocolate chip cookie ice cream bowls.

 Happy Birthday, Seimi!

Ela made a lovely card for Seimi, with several different views of one of his favorite cars, a Maclaren 675 LT.

Seimi out in the yard trying out his new RC truck "Rocky," which proved itself capable on most of the terrain in our yard: sidewalks, tall grass, rocks, and slopes.