Camels and Kangaroos...

My baby sister turned 27 today! All of our relatives were still in town from Thanksgiving, so we gathered once again for Grayson's birthday. It was an evening of food and fun!

I was so excited to find Strawberry Shortcake wrapping paper to wrap up Grayson's comfy, new pj's! Grayson and I used to love S.S. when we were little, so much that we even had sheets with her all over them! The crazy thing is that when the lights went out, Grayson would start screaming hysterically that there were camels and kangaroos in her bed. Every single night, we would have to turn the light back on, scoop up the camels and kangaroos and take them to the front door, where we would throw them out and tell them never to come back. This nightly ritual went on for quite awhile, until at some point we changed Grayson's sheets and...the camels and kangaroos were gone! Hmmmm...now I don't really remember S.S. having these very large animals as friends, but such is the imagination of a 4 year old. Thankfully, Grayson did not start screaming when she saw the wrapping paper.

Just in case you didn't think my sister was bizarre enough with her strange animal phobias, she also likes to prove or disprove the success of certain experiments she finds online. In this particular contemporary Mr. Wizard experiment, Grayson believed that she could get unpopped kernels of popcorn to, in fact, heat up enough to pop by the supposed radiation that emits from surrounding cell phones. Now, please be aware that this will only be successful if you can make all the phones ring at the same time. So, with the discord of multiple ring tones going off at the same time, we attempted to pop a tiny little snack for ourselves. And....it worked!!! Popcorn kernels began dancing over the countertop to horrible and annoying sounds of multiple cell phones. There was so much radiation that we began to get sunburned, then the cell phones simultaneously burst into flames!!! It was chaos!!! Ok, so this is what Grayson was so positive would happen. But, no, we were left with 7 unpopped kernels of corn. We were so very hungry.