On the 16th, Aaron turned 12 years old. Since he's become quite the renaissance man, he got all fine arts gifts this year. We put them all in the duffel bag Grandma Lou made for Aaron a year or so ago, which Arianna insisted on bringing upstairs. Daddy and the kids went to the local music store and scored a twin guitar stand(from Arianna, because Aaron plays guitar and bass now), an electric blue lightning guitar strap(from Adam, who made the difficult choice between flames and lightning, and nailed it) and a new pedal that Aaron's been drooling over(from Dad). Aaron quickly put them all together and spent a lot of time playing the whole rig downstairs. Cyndi found these incredible skull and cross bones knitting needles from Punk Knitts which Aaron said were "totally awesome". In fact, he took them to school today to show off. His choice for dinner was Olga's, where he she showed us his new "mustache". Gee, that's two entries where Aaron's had a mustache.
   Friday night, we host yet another herd of noisy boys for a birthday sleep over, after which I will post photos of something Aaron's been working on for weeks in preparation for the party.