Your Fifth Birthday 3rd November 09
You are 5 today! You seem so grown up – a lively boy.
You woke at 6.45 and came into our room for your presents – Lego, a game of Jenga and a little cupboard I made you filled with pictures and sweets wrapped in coloured cellophane. You seemed quite measured about it all.
1st day back at Kindi today, then we went for lunch in La Ruca. You ate a huge enchilada and could barely manage the flapjack which came with a candle in it. A woman in the café was so impressed by your patience – you had waited for ages to ask for a new fork as yours had dropped on the floor – that she came to give you a pound as a present!.
Lovely sunny day, though I was distracted by some sad news. We played with lego when we got home. Then Sol, Leon, Uncle Nick, Aunty Anna, G’ma and G’pa,Daddy and Bruno came for fish and chips tea and chocolate cake. We had been to buy the fish yesterday and you were quite curious about everything at Toveys the fishmongers – asking about the decorative fishing nets and buoys.
You often ask how things are made. How do you make books, how do you make lego – then answer – it’s plastic, it’s probably made in a factory. You don’t find it at home etc. yesterday you said – I invented it’ – about a game you played. First time I heard you say that.
You, Sol and Leon had great fun pretending you were driving a racing car – 2 boxes made out of cardboard joined together with you 3 sitting one in front of the other. All lively and raucous and fun. Party in the woods at the weekend.
Last couple of years have flown by – the routine of terms and holidays. Your fourth birthday seemed like it was yesterday. In the last few months you have seemed older, more questioning, more ‘you’.
You woke at 6.45 and came into our room for your presents – Lego, a game of Jenga and a little cupboard I made you filled with pictures and sweets wrapped in coloured cellophane. You seemed quite measured about it all.
1st day back at Kindi today, then we went for lunch in La Ruca. You ate a huge enchilada and could barely manage the flapjack which came with a candle in it. A woman in the café was so impressed by your patience – you had waited for ages to ask for a new fork as yours had dropped on the floor – that she came to give you a pound as a present!.
Lovely sunny day, though I was distracted by some sad news. We played with lego when we got home. Then Sol, Leon, Uncle Nick, Aunty Anna, G’ma and G’pa,Daddy and Bruno came for fish and chips tea and chocolate cake. We had been to buy the fish yesterday and you were quite curious about everything at Toveys the fishmongers – asking about the decorative fishing nets and buoys.
You often ask how things are made. How do you make books, how do you make lego – then answer – it’s plastic, it’s probably made in a factory. You don’t find it at home etc. yesterday you said – I invented it’ – about a game you played. First time I heard you say that.
You, Sol and Leon had great fun pretending you were driving a racing car – 2 boxes made out of cardboard joined together with you 3 sitting one in front of the other. All lively and raucous and fun. Party in the woods at the weekend.
Last couple of years have flown by – the routine of terms and holidays. Your fourth birthday seemed like it was yesterday. In the last few months you have seemed older, more questioning, more ‘you’.
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