Jakey's Birthday

Jakey had a very eventful birthday.  First to school, where he received his birthday crown, birthday pencil and a morning with the "Birthday Monster" who apparently sings "Happy Birthday" in some sort of monster language.  Then it was off to the doctor's office for his six year check-up where he promptly became moody and fussy about his state of undress.  Jakey is modest in the extreme and I have no idea where he gets it.  I clean the house naked and Max greeted a former teacher at the door naked and even spoke with her for several minutes.  Our house is a virtual nudist colony, yet Jakey is so shy he had me actually tie the back of his paper gown together.  Go figure.  After that ordeal was over, we brunched at Bob Evan's.  We were joined later by Daddy and Uncle Danny.  They had plenty of time to get there since the argument among the servers as to who was going to be forced to take our table lasted quite a while.  When we finally did get a server, I politely asked how she was, to which she only replied with a Slingblade type grunt.  I did not take this as a good sign.  But, the food was tasty, even if it was not timely.  No worries though, we were still able to get in a photo stop at Jakey's birthplace in front of my sister-in-law's house before he needed to be back at school for "networking". After school he walked straight to Granny's where he received his first present of the day, then it was back to our house for more presents.  I am very happy to report that he was thrilled with the shoehorn I gave him.  Andy scoffed, but Jake fell in love with the one at our hotel in Boston, so I knew it would be a hit.  Sadly, present revelry couldn't last too long because Jake had baseball practice.  Luckily, it was cut short due to our extraordinarily frigid spring weather.  So we were off to Chuck E. Cheese's, the highlight of any Ames' boy birthday. While the boys played, I was treated to a rather disturbing show of 80's hits from the Chuck E. Cheese Band.  (See below) Thankfully, they both made short order of their tokens, so after a tricky family portrait where we had to squeeze four people into a two person frame, we came home and the boys were off to sleep before their heads even hit the pillow.  This went for Andy too.