Anger Management

Hi, we're the Davidsons, and we're Angry-Bird-aholics.

It's true. Angry Birds has been a consistent part of our lives ever since a co-worker innocently showed it to me in passing on her iPod Touch at work.

The kids love this game. I love the game. It's perilously addicting.

A few weeks ago, I happened to notice that they recently released an Angry Birds board game. Okay, it's not really a board game. I'm not exactly sure how to describe it.

Well, I can think of one way.

AWESOME.

I ordered it from Amazon (free shipping, I heart you Amazon Prime!) in time to give it to Noah as a birthday present. I showed it to Travis a few days ahead of time, and the excitement was almost too much for him to bear. But he did a great job of keeping it a secret until the big day.

So, Noah opened the gift at his birthday party on Wednesday. I'm surprised at how much better this game is than I even thought it would be.

The concept is that you have to build the structures yourself based on the picture on the card that you draw. Your opponent then tries to knock the structure down with the slingshot and the birds.

We've not actually played a real game according to the rules yet, but the kids LOVE playing with the birds and the pigs like little action figures, and Travis just likes to try to build the stuff on the cards. And, shooting the birds from the catapult is as gratifying as you would hope.

(There really ought to more games involving catapults, don't you think? Chutes, Ladders & Catapults would be way more exciting. Catapult Euchre, anyone?)

On a related note, I wrapped up the game for the birthday party, and Travis came up with the brilliant idea of having Noah do a treasure hunt for his birthday present. So I wrote up some clues and hid them around the house, and when their cousins came over, they went on a search.

Travis read the clues.

One was hidden in the Harold book

Noah listens patiently

Is that a clue in the Wii?

My present is in the dryer?!?

Happy Birthday Noah!

We also had a super-fun night of bowling, go-karts, and mini-golf with my sister and her family on Thursday night, since they weren't able to make it to Noah's party; then we wrapped up the week of birthday celebration with a camping weekend at Lake Michigan with friends. I don't have any pictures of that yet, but with any luck I can steal some from one of the gals that was dedicated enough to bring her camera to the beach. We managed to get sand in all manner of ridiculous places, but it was well worth it.

Brief Update: I just had to show how Sophie plays the Angry Birds game. This is so totally Sophie.