Johnson Blog: Happy Birthday Trey J

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Happy Birthday Trey J

#7

Trey is 7 and I can't believe it. I know I say that every birthday, but I really can't believe it.

Yesterday was Veterans Day. First thing in the morning, I dropped Derek off to go be in the Veterans Day Parade. For the Citizen in the community Merit Badge Derek had to do a bit of service so him and his troop went to be in the Veterans Day Parade. Derek's leaders told me he did great. He went up to all the Veterans, shook their hands and saluted them. He went out of his way to the veterans that were in wheel chairs. The leaders were very proud of him, and said he was awesome.

Since the kids were not in school we decided to go see the Movie Goosebumps for Trey's birthday. Trey had been asking to see this movie for several months, but he actually called it "Jack Black" I guess the previews didn't do a good job of getting the movie's name out, just the actor's name for one of the characters.

The movie was decent, but it was probably a little old for Trey. He got scared and Curtis had to take him out for a bit. We told him he could leave, but he put his brave on and finished the movie and actually liked it.
Now onto the actual Birthday ...
Trey wanted Skylanders Superchargers. It is a video game, that I don't know much about. I've heard of Skylanders and that is about all. I do know that Trey and his friend Jeremy have been in cahoots about this for a long time. Jeremy introduced Trey to Skylanders and for months they have had this scheme that Trey would give Jeremy something or other Skylanders for Jeremy's birthday in October and Jeremy would give Trey the rest of the Skylanders and then they would have it all. Or something like that. These were pretty expenseive so I really wasn't willing to give Jeremy this $60 birthday gift, and we were not planning on having a party for Trey this year (planning on Disnelyland instead) so Mom and Dad just gave Trey what he asked for and Jeremy got a $15 Target gift card.