It's the Little Things That Make Me Happy

If you weren't already convinced that I have an evil streak, it's time to fix that. While we're at it, we'll go ahead and prove that the evil streak will live on within the heart of my spawn.

While perusing Amazon for birthday party invitations some time ago, I came across a little something that made my eyes sparkle with glee. I quickly pulled the trigger on that little something . . . er . . . big something. In fact, it was LIFE-SIZE something.

A life-size cutout of Troy Bolton/Zac Efron.

OH, YES I DID.

I totally bought Alexis a life-size cardboard Zac. The only thing was that on the very day that I made the purchase, she decided that she was in loooooove with Mr. Danforth. She spent an entire evening declaring her loooooove, so I figured I should probably order a second cut-out. Except, I planned to use the things as party decorations, so it seemed a little weird to have two boys and no girls.

And that is how we came to own life-size cutouts of Sharpay, Gabriella, Troy, and Chad.



They are magnificent. Truly.

Alexis, for her part, LOVED them. So much. She giggled when she saw them. She grinned from ear-to-ear as she moved them around and posed them just right. As Mr. Husband and I stood back and watched her joyfully play puppet-master with the 20-something high schoolers, we noticed something.

The dogs didn't seem to be real found of the fake people who had invaded their house.

At all.

I kinda sorta might have taken advantage of that fact and spent an entire evening chasing the dogs with Troy and Gabriella.

(Caution: Mucho barking in the video.)



My favorite part of that video? The fact that Alexis joined in on the dog chasing at the end. Oh yes, she did. It brings a little tear of pride to my eye just thinking about it.

This little hobby never gets old. Ever. In fact, I think I'm going to go chase the bulldog right now. Heh.