Today is Zed's second birthday but we celebrated on Sunday. We had a low-key family affair at our house.
He had a B-L-A-S-T!!! He was giggling and running around the house the entire time. Ella made little chocolate figurines of Jack, Mary, and Mel from Jack's Big Music Show for his cake.
Zed received lots of cool gifts: dinosaurs, cars, and lots of musical instruments (a harmonica, maracas, egg shakers, a tambourine, a kazoo, basically anything that makes a lot of noise). BOY TOYS! It beats the hell out of seeing piles of pink princess crap.
And he also received a lap harp.
A lap harp, as the name implies, is a harp that rests on your lap. Zed really loves to pluck the strings on his sister's guitar, but it's too big for him to pick up. We really wanted to buy him a ukulele for his birthday, but we couldn't find one at a toy store (we didn't want to shell out the bucks for the real thing because there was a good chance it would have ended up in a million pieces within a month). So we settled on a lap harp.
Something tells me he might be the only two-year-old kid in town with a lap harp.
But that wasn't the weirdest gift he received. The Nap Nazis, who showed up forty-five minutes late (for those of you too lazy to click on the link, they're my brother and sister-in-law who refuse to let anything stand in the way of their child's nap), gave Zed a Bible.
What the hell? Even if I were a deeply religious person, I would be offended because I feel that should be a gift parents should give to their child.
Something tells me he might be the only two-year-old kid in town with a lap harp and a Bible. If you'd like to book him for your next revival, let me know.
Happy Birthday, Little Guy!
Update: For those of you who were interested, we bought the lap harp at Toys "R" Us. It was made by First Act and was around $20. It's very simple (only eight strings (but that's two more than his sister's guitar)) and he loves it. It's badly out of tune (I haven't gotten around to tuning it yet) but he doesn't seem to mind.
Song of the day: I Want Your Love by Transvision Vamp
The Perfect Gift For A Two-Year-Old Boy
