The plan was to surprise Fletcher on his birthday (while we were in Florida) with a trip to LegoLand. We hadn't mentioned anything about LegoLand in the original surprise. He kept asking what we were going to do on his birthday and all we would say was "we'll figure something out" or "maybe we will go underwear shopping."** After the miserable failure of the first Disney surprise, a very big part of me wanted to just wake up on that Friday and tell him what we were doing.
But I had already made his little birthday card so we gave it to him and had him read it. At this point, some might say I'm a glutton for punishment.
The title of his card said "DID YOU KNOW?"
Each of these lines was a different page of the card. I think when he got to the second to the last line (about there being a Legoland near Orlando) he figured it out and was very excited!
Did you know that a Danish carpenter named Ole Kirk Christiansen invented LEGOs?
Did you know that the word “LEGO” is from the Danish word “leg godt” which means “play well”?
Did you know that approximately 19 billion LEGO elements are produced each year?
Did you know Germany buys the most LEGO sets per person?
Did you know LEGO opened its first LEGO themed amusement park in 1968?
Did you know there is a Lego Land amusement park near Orlando?
Did you know we are going there today to celebrate your 8th birthday?
Happy Birthday, Fletcher!
We love you so much!
Mom, Dad & Luke
Pictures of our fun day will be posted tomorrow.
**I'm not sure how this started, but anytime we are going to do something fun but don't want to tell the boys what it is, we suggest that we go "underwear shopping". Both boys (and Kevin) really do not like to shop. I would say they hate to shop, but my mom said I wasn't supposed to say the word "hate". So the thought of shopping is awful to them. The thought of shopping for underwear(!!!!) is the ultimate worst, boring, waste of time in their world. I suppose if we set their expectations really low, then anything we do will be much more fun. Right?
**I'm not sure how this started, but anytime we are going to do something fun but don't want to tell the boys what it is, we suggest that we go "underwear shopping". Both boys (and Kevin) really do not like to shop. I would say they hate to shop, but my mom said I wasn't supposed to say the word "hate". So the thought of shopping is awful to them. The thought of shopping for underwear(!!!!) is the ultimate worst, boring, waste of time in their world. I suppose if we set their expectations really low, then anything we do will be much more fun. Right?
No comments:
Post a Comment