Sunday, February 1, 2009

Covered in Nerf™ Darts...

So I left a cryptic status on my Facebook page yesterday: "Jay spent the afternoon covered in Nerf™ darts...".

If you suspect that I have a young progeny, of the male persuasion, who will be celebrating the anniversary of his nascence shortly, you'd be right. If you further deduced that he chose to do so with 20 of his closest friends at his karate dojo rather than invite said gang to the G. homestead (which would entail frantic cleaning and quite possibly an exorcism), you'd also be right.

And if you said that I was right down in the thick of things, targeting my son and his friends for wanton elimination at the trigger of my trust Nerf™ guns, you'd be right yet again...


Why yes, I am sporting a Nerf™ dart mohawk. Rather fetching, don't you think?

The vast majority of the boys in this group are also my Wolf Scouts. I felt it was important for them to see me as a dad as well as someone who's more than happy to just get silly and PLAY with them, too. I've been the Assistant Cubmaster for the past year and a half, and will be stepping into the role of Cubmaster next month when the WeBeLoS IIs cross over to Boy Scouts and the current Cubmaster moves on with his son.

So, naturally, I dove in with both feet, ran around the dojo like a man possessed, taking fire from all sides and generally getting the ever-lovin' snot beat outta me by a passel of hyperactive eight year-olds. But such is the crazy hedonism of my weekend. Sometimes it's tough just getting out of bed...

That is all.

9 comments:

angus lincoln said...

And you didn't scare the crap out of 'em?!!
Sounds like good times (and memories)!!

Anonymous said...

Nerf guns are the shiznit, no matter how old you are or are not.

Epijunky said...

That's something your Son will never forget. Happy Birthday to him!

Mine is turning nine next week. He wants to go play laser tag with his friends at Qzar (an inside laser tag arena. MUCH fun). I'm excited.

And it sure beats having them running through my house :)

Mike W. said...

Haha, reminds me of one of my favorite childhood birthdays.

Dad, friends and I all armed up with Nerf Super Soakers and went after him all over the yard.

Looks like you had as much fun as the kids Jay.

Christine G. said...

nerf darts or deep freeze. where would you have rather spent the day this weekend!

all hail cubmaster jay!

Old NFO said...

Well done Jay! There ARE times you have to come down off the pedastal of parenthood and just be Daddy... :-)

phlegmfatale said...

Your Nerfhawk is made of WIN!

breda said...

Only you could pull off a nerf mohawk, JayG. Very cute.

Unknown said...

My 18 month old daughter loves when I stick those to my head and face...

Then gets frustrated when she can't get them to stick to her. *lol*