Are You Feeling Silly?

Silly Bands aren't new around here. Ben has seen them and liked them for a while now, which surprised me because, well, they are bracelets and bracelets are for girls. Of course silly bands are cool bracelets made of rubber band material in fun shapes that stretch for wear as a bracelet and then return to their original shape after you take them off. That means there are endless possibilities and we will never be able to have one of each kind or complete the set or anything. There is no end to silly bands. Lucky us.

Though I knew Ben wanted to buy some we hadn't made it to the store and he wasn't overly insistent. Then he went to Connor's birthday party at Pump It Up and his gift bag had three silly bands inside. He was elated and we were now solidly in the silly band camp. Within two days he broke one of them by stretching it really, really far. Tears were shed. Before I could get to the store with his cash in hand, they discovered Aimee. She is their supplier. She stalks the stores searching for cool new packages of fun shapes that Ben would like or Maddie will go nuts over. They have letters, numbers, kitchen utensils, cars, princesses, fairies, jewelry shapes and more. Some are even glow in the dark. We had Aimee watch the kids for us last night when we went to hear Representative Rob Bishop of the US Congress speak at the Temple Visitor Center. She brought a whole grocery bag of silly bands to "trade" with the kids. Ben reported back this morning that "I didn't actually have to trade any with Aimee. She just gave me lots more so they go almost to my elbows." Yeah. They love her and apparently, we love silly bands.