Today Alex turned 5. Apparently this equipped him for some amazing adventures. …

This afternoon we had to go to the bridge where some black monsters. Luckily the scooter his parents gave him was fitted with I-guns (or is that Eye-guns) which come with I-protectors (or possibly Eye-protectors, who knows?) and power guns which are just the thing for killing the black monsters and other baddies that lurk beneath the bridge.

We went on a wide ranging patrol looking for other baddies near the school. At one stage he declared that I could be the dad and he would be the kid. This apparently entitled him to whine at me: "Daaaad, I wanna go in there. Daaad, why can't I go in there? What's this Dad? Why?"

Here is a photo taken after the successful completion of the mission.

Later we all got together for a Pizza party followed by cake, candles and ice cream.

So the planet is a safer place thanks to a five year old armed with a scooter and an imagination then fed with pizza and cake.