Ice-cream!!!

Fred was out all day driving his semi.  Then he called home with a message.  He said he had a big surprise!  Everyone was so excited and could hardly wait to see what it was.  Their imaginations were running wild with all the possibilities.  

Ed and Ted sat in the window watching for him to arrive.  Finally they shouted "He's here!  He's here!" and they all went to the door to see what the surprise was.  Fred drove in and on the trailer of his truck were 3 big tubs of ice-cream!  None of them had ever had ice-cream before but they knew it looked like something they would like.  

Emilio told them to line up and he would hand out bowls.  There was a tub of chocolate, a tub of vanilla, and one of neopolitan (3-flavor) ice-cream.  Lola squealed "we need chocolate syrup!" and ran to get a bottle of it.  She knows that everything is better with chocolate syrup.  Emilio brought out a bowl of nuts.  Alphonso got the whipped cream.  Raoul went to get the sprinkles while he waited his turn.

They had so much fun choosing what flavors they wanted and adding their toppings.  Of course Alphonso had vanilla with whipped cream ... he would probably have liked other flavors but he didn't want to get dirty.  He was very happy with vanilla though, and sat off to the side to eat it safely.

Once everyone had a bowl full of ice-cream and had chosen all the toppings they wanted they all sat down and dug in.  It got very quiet except for the sounds of slurping and "nom nom nom" as they gobbled it up.  

Chico was eating his ice-cream when all of a sudden he closed his eyes tight and yelled "BRAIN FREEZE!".  Very soon the rest of them were feeling it too.  Ned tried to explain to them that they needed to slow down but nobody would listen.  They would take a few bites, then yell "BRAIN FREEZE!" and once it passed they would do it all over again.  They all sat together on the floor eating, laughing and having brain freezes. 

Emilio looked at Julio and saw that he had whipped cream on his nose.  Emilio pointed and laughed at him.  UpYours saw that Emilio also had whipped cream on his nose and he started to laugh too.  It turned out they all had whipped cream on their noses and were all laughing at each other.

Ed and Ted finished their ice-cream first.  They loved it so much they even licked their bowls clean.  They were such a mess - they were both covered in ice-cream with smeary, sticky faces.  Then they looked at each other and yelled "FONSO!" together.  Alphonso had just finished eating his vanilla ice-cream and was very pleased that he managed to stay nice and clean until he saw the twins coming.  They chased him all over the room laughing and saying "Give me a hug!!"

Alphonso ran as quickly as he could but they were too fast for him ... nobody can out-run Ed and Ted.  They hugged him and got their ice-cream faces all over him.  

Finally everyone was done eating.  They all had round full bellies and sticky faces and hands.  It was definitely time for a bath.  They all hopped into the tub to rinse off and relax.  Ed and Ted spun around in the water and made lots of bubbles.  Finally when everyone was all clean they got dried off and headed for bed.  They all gave Fred a hug and thanked him for bringing home such a wonderful treat.

Happy New Year!!!!!

This was TOMH&R's first new year and they were so excited!  They were very happy to have spent the past year together having so many adventures and good times.  They were all decked out in party hats with noisemakers and horns to blow, yelling "Happy New Year!" to each other.

Ted and Ed somehow managed to get themselves each inside a balloon.  They held their prickles down close to their bodies so they wouldn't burst it and were rolling and bouncing all over the place.  Then they  decided to go down the stairs.  They went bounce, bounce, bounce right down the stairs ... once they got to the bottom they stuck out their prickles and the balloons went POP!   They sat there laughing at each other - AHAHAHAHAHA!!!, then ran back up the stairs to get a new balloon and do it all over again.

There was music and dancing with everyone singing along.  They heard all their favorite songs, inserting the word "hedgehog" whenever they could.  They sang "you ain't nothin but a hedgehog" again, and then "I've got the moves like hedgehogs".  They love to do the twist so they were all wiggling and dancing all night.

Gustave strolled around the party among all his friends, enjoying all the happiness and asking what their New Year's resolutions are.  Most of them didn't have any, but a few did come up with something.

Emilio said he's so happy to have so many friends, he's going to cherish them even more

Alphonso is hoping to stay white and clean without having to wear the biohazard suit so much.

Lola wants to get even sparklier (she's really enjoying the bedazzler she got for Christmas).

Ted and Ed are determined to become true ninjas in fight club.  Guerrero just rolled his eyes at them and went back to pretending to listen to his ipod.

Jorgé and Chico decided they'll accompany Gustave to Cinco de Mayo this year.

Luigi wants to eat more pasketti this year.

Ned is going to put all his efforts into figuring out his time machine.

Fred really wants to fine tune his zamboni driving to achieve the perfect sheet of ice.

Finally Al told them that he's going to practice landing so he doesn't have to tuck and roll.  He's planning to fly Gustave, Jorgé and Chico down to Cinco de Mayo this year so they don't have to walk so far.  Gustave is very glad for that (it takes him MONTHS to get down there).

Al celebrated hard and had a little too much beer, he may be throwing up in the morning.  He was having a good time though ... next time they may have to get him some "near beer" instead.  He'll never know the difference.

Jed learned that Cosmo isn't just a magazine, it's also a fancy drink.  He thinks it would be great to drink a cosmo while reading Cosmo to celebrate his New Years Eve from now on.

When it got close to midnight they all sat around the TV watching the ball drop and counting down.  Then they all yelled "Happy New Year!!" with lots of hugs and high 5's, blowing their noisemakers and throwing glitter around.

Then Upyours came in from the kitchen with a huge tray balanced on his shell, full of sandwiches.  There were pb & j and some just pb for Alphonso.  Everyone feasted on the sandwiches with all their favorite drinks.  Emilio had his cranberry juice, Alphonso and Chico had milk, Ted & Ed had lemonade, Jorgé had his gatorade, and Freddy of course had tea.  

Everyone ate, laughed and played until they were all full and all tired out from the intense celebrating.  Then with full bellies they all piled up together and went to sleep.