Oscar Stew

Drew’s birthday was last Monday. It’s hard to believe that 10 years from now Drew will be terrorizing the streets in his hovercar…

The birthday festivities started the day before as we wrapped presents to add to the anticipation (and self dicipline!). Why use fancy yet meaningless wrapping paper when you can outsource the decorating to the temp agency? The kids don’t have to know that this is one of the ways we pinch our pennies. Would they care? Nah.

Maybe it was just a thinly disguised opportunity to cop a feel? And, there’s nothing like writing yourself a little birthday message…

While Drew was at school Brinley wrapped her secret gift for Drew. It was temperature sensitive, and needed to be kept under tight surveillance.

True to tradition, the birthday fairy came and trashed, er…decorated Drew’s room.

We didn’t even have to ask Drew to pretend how he felt that morning. He did it all over again because he wanted to!

Drew requested pizza for his birthday dinner. It was a momentous occasion for our family…8 months in the making. Rowan can finally handle dairy! Free at last!

After Drew was done decorating pizza he informed his agent that he was ready to take calls from all his fans. By the way, that isn’t pizza sauce on his knuckles. Drew hasn’t been cage-fighting either. He’s just suffering from the driest winter in Colorado in the last 100 years!  

Drew’s cake was inspired by Family Fun magazine. You didn’t think we thought this up all on our own, did you?

Everything appears to be on the up and up. Drew, go ahead and make a wish!

And yeah, if those sparkler candles re-light, just keep on wishing!

Hey Drew, I’m slobbering all over this one, so you should unwrap it before it’s soggy slop…

Thanks Rowan! Now all my secret treasures will remain secret! This safe even comes with an alarm, so even Rowan’s metal-melting slobber won’t go undetected.

Grandma & Grandpa J sent gifts that entertain no matter the weather.

Hmmm, sunglasses from a Dilly Bar box? They are pretty cool…

Drew appears to have been fooled. But for how long? Only Brinley knows…

So what ‘s in the big green bag? I dunno, it says “rage” on it, I hope Drew doesn’t have a fit!

He was doing wheelies in the kitchen on his second pass!

Brinley’s mystery gift has finally been revealed…what kind of shoes need to be frozen? Dilly Bars! What the?!

As an artist, Drew uses a lot of paper. Construction paper gets expensive, and I’m tired of watching the computer paper supply dwindle. So the best gift? A roll of paper 36 feet long! Drew can also run Concourse B in Denver all by himself, courtesy of Grandpa & Grandma F.

Even Edgar got in on the gift-giving, with a gift that keeps on giving…back to himself! You follow? Edgar has high guinea-garden expectations. Better get digging Drew!