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maelorin at 08:48pm on 15/02/2004
maelorin at 08:48pm on 15/02/2004my son had his fourth birthday today. lorelei threw a birthday party for him.
he had a ball. initially his excitement got the better of him, and he was a screaming, running, tumbling mess. present giving was done on the fly - which was just as well, coz the excitement would have killed someone (us if not him).
the major present was a bike (with trainer wheels and helmet - in increase the chances he'll make it to birthday no. 5). then there were books, and dinosaur models, and dinosaur books, and dinosaur clothes (see a pattern here?). he also got a few educational things: some counting and spelling cdroms to play with on mummy's computer, and counting and spelling books.
the actual party was two hours packed with games, fruit juice, play doh, pass the parcel, a pinata filled with toys, balloons, fruit juice, watermelon, sorbet, games. you get the picture. with the temperature up in the high thirties centigrade [around 100F] we stayed inside most of the time and made sure the little people had plenty of fluids.
a successful, if very loud, afternoon.
tired now.
he had a ball. initially his excitement got the better of him, and he was a screaming, running, tumbling mess. present giving was done on the fly - which was just as well, coz the excitement would have killed someone (us if not him).
the major present was a bike (with trainer wheels and helmet - in increase the chances he'll make it to birthday no. 5). then there were books, and dinosaur models, and dinosaur books, and dinosaur clothes (see a pattern here?). he also got a few educational things: some counting and spelling cdroms to play with on mummy's computer, and counting and spelling books.
the actual party was two hours packed with games, fruit juice, play doh, pass the parcel, a pinata filled with toys, balloons, fruit juice, watermelon, sorbet, games. you get the picture. with the temperature up in the high thirties centigrade [around 100F] we stayed inside most of the time and made sure the little people had plenty of fluids.
a successful, if very loud, afternoon.
tired now.
tired
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hans has had lego for some time now. he got duplo around 2yo, and lego around 3ish (when he stopped putting everything in his mouth ... at least stopped putting everything in his mouth to see if he could eat it ;)
it is so much fun to see him playing with dinosaurs. he uses their real names, so its 'tyrannosaurus eats parasaurolophus' or 'triceratops kills allosaurus'.
he's a great party trick all on his own at the moment. adults who have never had kids are amazed. (indeed, many who have bred are surprised.) he's a bright little pedant (but still cute ;)
we're working on getting him to use the pedals on his new bike. then he can go out into the big wide world and get some serious scrapes and cuts and ... wait a minute. i think i've got to go make a call....
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