The Severed Cortex

Robert wanted to play video games at Dave and Busters for his birthday so that's what we decided to do. Originally we were supposed to do this on his birthday, July 1st, but his mother called the Friday night before and asked if we could switch to Saturday due to circumstances beyond her control.

Nancy was already on the other side of the creek on Saturday so she showed up just before us and picked up a power card. I had a birthday card so while I distracted Robert, Nancy slipped it in the birthday card. We went inside, found a table in the midway, and after ordering food, Robert opened the birthday card. We then spent time burning up power cards. (I have my own since I spend a lot of time at D&B ). Once the food arrived, Robert wanted french fries and cheese sticks, we stopped to chow. Afterwards, Nancy and Robert played games to burn up the rest of the power cards. We tallied our tickets which only added up to about 400 or so. I had about 500 on my card so I combined them and Robert picked out a handful of prizes.

After the power cards were properly burned, we headed over to our house to eat chocolate cake and open presents. Nancy got him several books, (Spiderman, a book of jokes, and the big book of gross stuff), and I got him a full size basketball, (he asked for one), and some lights for his bike that screw onto the valve stems. They light up whenever they detect movement. We headed out to the backyard to goof around with the ball and I was shocked at how well he could dribble the full size ball at only ten years old. Maybe I'm a little out of touch at what ten year olds are able to do, but he quickly juked me with a dribble between his legs and a crossover. He's got plenty of natural ability.