Happy Birthday Uncle Cody!

Suzy and I made some magic wands to help celebrate Uncle Cody's Birthday. I laughed so hard when she said, "That's a great idea! Because Uncle Cody is a real Magi-hackson." I'm sure she didn't really say Michael Jackson and I know it was meant to be toddler speak for magician. However, it sure made me laugh!


Suzy wanted sprinkles on hers.
I thought they turned out great. Debbie and Cody thought it was "sweet".

My favorite part was that I was able to pull out some of my old magic stuff. It was fun to entertain the pro. I think Suzy may finally be old enough to understand object permanence well enough to make it worth while. I used my disappearing / reappearing box to present the wands to Cody and Suzy actually "got" it and thought it was "amazing." I may have to dust off some of the ol' magic tricks from way back in the "Marti the Magician" days....

(I hesitated so long to bring out the tricks for my own kids because of a really traumatic/comical toddler birthday party when I was in my prime. I made an egg disappear and the kid was not impressed. Why? It had nothing to do with my skill or abilities. He simply wasn't impressed because as he said, "You just used an invisible egg, that's all." Because to a toddler, invisible is highly unimpressive..... I should have only done the balloon animals. THOSE were impressive....)