Splinter Cell,ReinDeer games,Princess Apples and My little Pony Rat A Tat and 6 ft paper airplanes
01-02-2013, 09:48 PM
01-02-2013, 09:48 PM
I wasn't thinking of "splinter cell" or "Reindeer Games", but ideas from those two would have been fun to add if I'd had a little more time to prepare.
I love the little princess poison apple stunt, but there are currently no little girls to pull it on and my Niece(the mother of the above boy) had wanted to be a little princess for less than a year when I introduced her to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (something her mother has never forgiven.) Yes her son has all the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle merchandise within his age range.
A warning about the My Little Pony or any other gift that makes a lot of noise, those kind of gifts can boomerang badly, especially if the niece or nephew regularly visits your home.
When my brother and I were just entering our early double digits we absolutely wanted "Rat A Tat" guns, you know those guns where you squeeze the trigger and they make a LOUD sound not unlike a stack of 4 plastic spoons tied to strike the spokes of a Bicycle wheel. We told everyone (Grand parents, aunts, uncles, friends and any stranger) that we wanted those guns and that Christmas we received 6 of those noise weapons or as my mom called them "GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE NOW!"
She put up with us having at least 4 going at any one time mostly "OUTSIDE!" for about two weeks, but she decided on take desperate measures and a measure of revenge when she walked out the front door and noticed I'd just found a way to squeeze the trigger of all 3 noise guns at once.
She bundled both of use up and took us to her husband's parents house with the TWO noise guns they had given us and let us spend the day. When she came to pick us up she told us to leave the guns in our toy box at their house. The next day TWO more guns went for a permanent visit with me and brother to her parents home my brother and I tagged along and spent a LONG weekend visiting them.
It didn't do anything about the 2 guns still at home, but it did cut down on the noise by two thirds. It also had another side effect in that we only received the dreaded 4 S's from our grand parents for the next 5 years, you know the 4 S's Shoes, Socks, Shirts and Slacks.
My ?grand nephew? loves aircraft and I've been making small paper airplanes for him for the last year or so, his mom was okay with that, but back in June I came across several 6 foot by 4 foot sections of undamaged high quality very heavy industrial paper used to separate and shield our seed bags. The next time my Niece visited and I presented her boy a 6 foot long "skinny" paper airplane and a "fat" paper airplane with a 5.5 foot wing span. He loved them to the point of sleeping with at least one of them. His mom said he is extremely careful with them and she has almost given up hope of him destroying them to the point she can finally get rid of them and he pretty much wants one to go EVERYWHERE with him.
This past four months my Niece called me several times and told me in no uncertain terms that I was not to give or show him any more of those 6 foot monsters and was very hopeful that her Christmas gift from "Santa" of a small flying helicopter would make him forget those monsters.
I think she became desperate when I casually mentioned something about planning to trying to use bottle rockets to power my fleet of 6 foot paper airplanes.
So all you Uncles and Aunts that have nieces or nephews interested in aircraft remember a nice cheap toy for them can be made with LARGE section of heavy paper.
Then when your possibly irritated Brother or Sister calls casually mention the version of paper airplane your working on that is powered by fire works rockets and don't forget laugh evilly for full effect.
Sadly my niece proved right about the helicopter and after I showed my nephew how to successfully make it fly he seems to have forgotten about the 6 foot paper airplanes and they are currently sitting in back bedroom, much to her relief.
hmelton
God Bless
I love the little princess poison apple stunt, but there are currently no little girls to pull it on and my Niece(the mother of the above boy) had wanted to be a little princess for less than a year when I introduced her to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (something her mother has never forgiven.) Yes her son has all the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle merchandise within his age range.
A warning about the My Little Pony or any other gift that makes a lot of noise, those kind of gifts can boomerang badly, especially if the niece or nephew regularly visits your home.
When my brother and I were just entering our early double digits we absolutely wanted "Rat A Tat" guns, you know those guns where you squeeze the trigger and they make a LOUD sound not unlike a stack of 4 plastic spoons tied to strike the spokes of a Bicycle wheel. We told everyone (Grand parents, aunts, uncles, friends and any stranger) that we wanted those guns and that Christmas we received 6 of those noise weapons or as my mom called them "GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE NOW!"
She put up with us having at least 4 going at any one time mostly "OUTSIDE!" for about two weeks, but she decided on take desperate measures and a measure of revenge when she walked out the front door and noticed I'd just found a way to squeeze the trigger of all 3 noise guns at once.
She bundled both of use up and took us to her husband's parents house with the TWO noise guns they had given us and let us spend the day. When she came to pick us up she told us to leave the guns in our toy box at their house. The next day TWO more guns went for a permanent visit with me and brother to her parents home my brother and I tagged along and spent a LONG weekend visiting them.
It didn't do anything about the 2 guns still at home, but it did cut down on the noise by two thirds. It also had another side effect in that we only received the dreaded 4 S's from our grand parents for the next 5 years, you know the 4 S's Shoes, Socks, Shirts and Slacks.
My ?grand nephew? loves aircraft and I've been making small paper airplanes for him for the last year or so, his mom was okay with that, but back in June I came across several 6 foot by 4 foot sections of undamaged high quality very heavy industrial paper used to separate and shield our seed bags. The next time my Niece visited and I presented her boy a 6 foot long "skinny" paper airplane and a "fat" paper airplane with a 5.5 foot wing span. He loved them to the point of sleeping with at least one of them. His mom said he is extremely careful with them and she has almost given up hope of him destroying them to the point she can finally get rid of them and he pretty much wants one to go EVERYWHERE with him.
This past four months my Niece called me several times and told me in no uncertain terms that I was not to give or show him any more of those 6 foot monsters and was very hopeful that her Christmas gift from "Santa" of a small flying helicopter would make him forget those monsters.
I think she became desperate when I casually mentioned something about planning to trying to use bottle rockets to power my fleet of 6 foot paper airplanes.
So all you Uncles and Aunts that have nieces or nephews interested in aircraft remember a nice cheap toy for them can be made with LARGE section of heavy paper.
Then when your possibly irritated Brother or Sister calls casually mention the version of paper airplane your working on that is powered by fire works rockets and don't forget laugh evilly for full effect.
Sadly my niece proved right about the helicopter and after I showed my nephew how to successfully make it fly he seems to have forgotten about the 6 foot paper airplanes and they are currently sitting in back bedroom, much to her relief.
hmelton
God Bless