Odd Bird, Good Duck...

*grins* I had far too much fun wrapping my nephews birthday present........

his birthday is mid june, but since they're already up here for our family reunion thing, we throw a little party  for the boy.

the first year we did this, my nephew had been asking for a watermellon, something he and my mother both have a great love for, so my mother went out and bought one, and stuck some candles in it, and called it cake. since then, it's become a tradition to have a watermellon as part of the little celebration we throw for his birthday up here.

now back to the having too much fun wrapping his gift...

as usual my mother got him some clothing, always has, always will. I folded that nicely and laid it in the bag, then went about filling it so full of tissue paper that he couldn't hope to peek inside by pushing aside the paper a bit.

but the part I had went crazy with was the other item. apparently because she got my 4 year old niece and nephew a fisher price "FP3" player she felt that my 12 year old nephew needed an mp3 player of his own.

so she got him an Ipod. a nano.

*laughs evily* I wrapped that little bugger in at least 20 layers of paper, probably more, I lost count. I alternated between wrapping paper and tissue paper and used every varity we had left in our little stock of gift wrapping stuff. even the pink baby tissue paper and the seasame street wrapping paper.

then I buried that (and it had so much paper, it was almost double the size it started out as) at the bottom of the gift bag under the clothing.

*grins* by the time he got down to the last 5 or 6 layers, he was incredibly frusterated and would rip off one layer, growl loudly and rip off the next and repeat. I was kind though and put a very distinct paterened peice of paper on as the first layer, so i could tell him when it was the last layer, I'm not that cruel.

*bounces innocently* my mother says that the relationship my oldest nephew and I have is more like a brother and sister than a nephew and aunt, becuase he and his parents lived with us for so long when he was little, and I watched him alot, much like I watch my niece now....we won't go into the possibility of the same thing happening with her.

lets just leave it at my oldest nephew and I are really good at pushing each others buttons, and yes, so is my niece.