Bob-omb!!

Dirk and I have been playing a lot of Mario Bros. lately and we recently completed Super Mario Bros. for the Wii (even all the extra stuff!) There were several levels with Bob-ombs that gave us quite a bit of trouble, so I wanted to give him something that kind of celebrated our success over those levels. With his birthday coming up, this seemed like a perfect excuse! :-) The pattern is from the very talented WolfDreamer and can be found here. She said that hers measured about 8 inches tall, but mine is a scant 2 inches (3 if you stand the fuse up all the way and include that)! I filled it with split green peas in hopes that it might be heavy enough to use as a paperweight. (The usual weighted fillings are much harder to come by here in Germany) Since he is so small, I placed him in a toilet paper tube and wrapped it to look like a cracker, then wrote "You 'da BOMB!" on the outside. I think the genius of the wrapping was lost on Dirk, but he loved the little Bob-omb, just the same! He's just the right size for chucking at the TV when we get frustrated at it (currently playing Super Mario Galaxy 2, so there's a high probability of that happening soon), but Dirk doesn't want to throw him. I guess that means he really likes him. :-)

From the front From the side He's so tiny!!!