We’ll, we survived yet another house full of boys. Aaron had 6 kids for a sleepover/gamefest Friday night. In addition to their normal Wii fest, there were some new wrinkles that we’ve not done before. One of the guests brought over an Xbox 360, which they played after Arianna went to bed, because the boys are old enough to play more mature games. Here they are having a sugar-Reeses fest before diving into the game:

Another guest brought his Warhammer 40,000 action figures over, so some of the boys held a battle:

This year, because the weather was nice, we also played basketball outside. Dad played around-the-world with them, then in 3-on-3, then all the kids came outside and they played 4-on-4 for a while, until they made two of the better kids play the remaining six kids in what turned out to be a fairly well matched game, despite those two kids being so outnumbered.

Then we had cake and presents, where once again we failed to obtain enough candles for base-10, so Aaron figured out how to do it in binary:

Finally, Aaron has been working hard to prepare thumbs puppets, something he invented several weeks ago and made his own patterns for. Unfortunately, we forgot to hold the thumb wrestling tournament, but I told Aaron we could have friends over some other time for a random party and do it then. Here are the puppets Aaron designed and knitted, among them Skull & Cross Bones, Hobbes the Tiger, a Jack-O-Lantern, two Emo Viruses and Angry Pig: