Of Birthdays and Picnics

Yes, we have an 18 year old. In typical Ben fashion, he was in a hurry and blew out the candles before

Zeke was ready with the camera...Shekinah enjoyed the smoke though.

This afternoon I signed over his savings account to him and he opened a checking account, glad to be done with the awkward phase of needing to do his banking even though his is fully able to go to the bank himself.

Last night they hooked up  three keyboards and a joystick so they could all play Tux  together.

Guess that counts as playing a game together.

Shekinah was in charge of bumping elbows and keeping life interesting. I ended up putting her in the tub to give them some peace...yeah I did put in water.

            Tonite after a "refreshing" jump in the pool (it's cold again from all the rain) the girls continued their "game"  It involved all of their combined matchbox cars and a long village street drawn on the paper. They had a drive up produce stand...Faith would drive up and order apples and oranges and Hope would have someone deliver it to Faith's car. Hope of course was in charge of the money.

 Then they decided to have a town picnic each person(car) was invited...each one is named BTW, they are cross referenced on a piece of paper with the car's number and the name they gave the person. Then on another paper there were food items assigned by number to each person. So the conversation went something like this  (Note Faith keeping a bit of control on the situation)
Hope: Hi! What is your name?
Faith :  Mr Eagle...David Eagle
Hope: Oh, you are supposed to bring dirt pudding.
Faith: Mr Eagle is an old man, he can't make dirt pudding.
Hope: Well he can buy it!
Faith: No he can't he's down to his last dollar.