Five boys and 365 milligrams of caffeine!

Yikes! Anyone wanna come over? My thirteen year old son is having his birthday slumber party and he and his brother received their copy of Halo 3 in the mail today. These boys were pumped just on that information alone. Then one of them brought over a twelve pack of soda. No, not just any soda. What he brought over to make the celebration complete - Mountain Dew Game Fuel Halo 3 - which has 73 milligrams of caffeine per 12 ounce can! According to this soft drink caffeine chart, that’s more than Jolt Cola!

They have divvied the box up, even giving me one (No, I haven’t drank it, yet) and they have decided that they want to each save one unopened one. Well, you know, they have to preserve this historic event. Which it seems to have really become. The boys’ cousin even missed their family birthday party because his copy came in the mail the day of the family party for three of the cousins. The strange thing was, I was upset he wasn’t there until I heard why he wasn’t there. And that is just one example of how big and some could say, out of control, this thing has gotten!

Ok, well, in case you’ve spent your life wondering what five boys and 365 milligrams of caffeine sound like, I recorded the event for you. You will only see my beautiful Christmas angel, because, I don’t have permission from their mothers to post their pics on the internet - and more importantly, because, I’m hoping she may deliver me from all of this.

(Sorry it’s so blurry, not one of my better camera-skills days! And I have no idea why the sound is fuzzy - that is the first time my new camera has done that!)