Being an adult actually makes the holiday season more joyous because you can make numerous people happier through nice acts. Namely, finding and nailing a unique gift for a pair of awesome little people. My friend and co-worker Aaron has two daughters as pictured above. They dig the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. More than ponies, more than (Disney) princesses and probably all the other stereotypical things American girls are supposed to like.
This year at Austin’s Comic Con, we found a wonderful artist who drew the ladies their own ninja turtle to call their own. (I rudely forget his name, I need to go over the credit card charges since all I remember is he lives in Houston.) As you can see above, the ladies are stoked. The artist came up with the design and weapon on his own. I only said make it a lady turtle with pink (the older daughter’s favorite color). Then I kept up with Splinter’s tradition by naming this female badass after a Renaissance painter…Sofonisba or Sofie for short in honor of portrait artist Sofonisba Anguissola. But you all already knew that from my entry about her during Months of Italians.
Now to see what kind of stories the kids come up with about Sofie’s adventures. I’m working on a villain, probably a jerk whose battle cry is “Girls can’t be ninjas!”