some highlights from our day:

As Archer was opening the batmobile gift: "Archer! You are the nerd! You are the nerd who got the batmobile!!!!"
As Archer and Wiley were opening a gift together: "This must be a good one, the best gifts come in cardboard."

Wiley and Archer were super happy with all their gifts. This year seemed to be the year of board games, we got lots of great ones, including connect 4, hedbandz, twister, battleship, and stratego, and blokus. Archer got lots of new art supplies and some pattern blocks. Wiley got stilts and some action figures. York gave Wiley a Nintendo DS (which he called a Bentendo DS for a while) and gave Archer a game boy. Despite how much they love these gifts, all day they have played with a dollar store punching balloon that has a dragon head (and, there's been a hole in the head of it all day, so they can't actually blow it up). It is actually Archer's gift, but Wiley has seriously played with it all day. It's so funny. They have been great about sharing their gifts, no fights, likely due to the blurry and probably forgotten lines of whose gift is whose.

We've read nearly all the new Shel Silverstein book, nearly all the Roal Dahl book, and most of all our other new books!

Oh! and the bestest gifts! Two new bikes for Wiley and Archer from Mimi. We'll go to the park tomorrow to practice our riding!