Dad – We went to camp last month, our last year directing Inter-High, so we decided to go out with a hill-billy bang, including a hoe down, a hootenany, and a old-timey country fair that the perm staff put on.
Marlon – I did bobbing for apples in a pool of oatmeal.
Dad – A pool of oatmeal that had been sitting in the sun with twenty other people’s faces in it. It was disgusting.
Marlon – It was awesome.
Dad – There was also face painting, but jayden chose to get his arm painted instead.
Jayden – It’s a cat, and it’s on me. Somebody else put it on with paint. They didn’t get any on my pillow.
Dad – We also had a birthday party for Marlon at a trampoline gym.
Marlon – I picked it because it totally keeps us out of trouble. And you can bring your own food there. And we brought our own Rolo cake that I made. Well, that Dad made with me. And there’s some left still, because it was huge.
Jayden – You can jump on the foam there, and then you dig down to the bottom. Dad said, “Get out so other kids can have a turn,” but he couldn’t get me because he had his shoes on.
Ethan – I was trying to bounce on all the trampolines in a row with only one step on each. Only Anyk and I could do it.
Marlon – You can play dodgeball too, but nobody could get me out. I was jumping so high, and then I would catch the balls in mid-air.
Marlon – It was pretty much the awesomist birthday. I just ate junk food the whole day. And Gaterade. And I watched movies with Dad til the middle of the night. Next year I’m having the same party, because I’ll be bigger and I’ll bounce even higher.
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