Alex is friends* with a boy named Gideon. He has a twin brother named Bram. This weekend was their birthday party at Chelsea Piers, and Alex did rock climbing and the batting cages. Alex was all stressed out about what to give them for presents because:
1. They were going to give her a birthday present from last week, and that's two presents from them and only one present from her, and
2. They are really really rich. Whatever we can afford to buy them, they probably already have a nicer version of.
All week I kept telling Alex, "You have to buy your presents, don't forget and then cry on Sunday!" She kept telling me she knew, she knew, she was working on it. But I was getting nervous on her behalf. Nerves by proxy?
Finally yesterday morning Alex says I have to take her into the city, to a bakery. Turns out in school they had to write about their favorite things and Gideon wrote about rainbow cake from an Italian bakery. Then he told Bram about it, and he agreed that's his favorite thing too. So that's what Alex wanted to give them for their birthdays. Rainbow cake. She's a weird kid.
Their mother said it was the most original gift they got. Oh, and they gave Alex fancy personalized stationery with a diary and a fancy pen, and a personalized mug.
*And by friends, I mean she's got a wicked crush on him.
1 comment:
weird kid? i don't know. i think it's sweet that she really took care to have a look into what this guy really likes a lot, and didn't just pick something that seemed appropriate for a boy that age. i can imagine he was happy about the present. and that cake looks yummy, too.
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