trippingdifferently

So i have had my 1st Usborne Book Party – 25th May 2007, Friday, 9 to 12.

And how did it go? Well, not very good – out of the more than 50 or so invited (we had sent an email out to Walter’s colleagues as well) – only 2 came. There were a few others who had intended to come but last minute things came up – so … it’s a lesson learned – it may well be a simple case of wrong timing – so we’ll try again – maybe in the evening this time.

Here’s a look at the book display which i set up – my 1st attempt at such a thing:

Hoping & praying that response to the books will get better & better quite soon.
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Tobias had his 3rd birthday last Sunday – yes it has taken me a week to get this up – but i was busy with books stuff (see next post for details).
The very lucky boy had 2x birthday parties this year – yep, 2x – which meant 2x cakes & a couple more presents 😉

Here he is, on the morning of his birthday, very happy with his presents:

Here’s his 1st cake (the official one) Big Trucks cake – he couldn’t waiting to take the trucks off the cake from the moment we picked up the cake!

Here are the kids at church who were there for his birthday (the official party was held at church):

Here’s his 2nd cake (mummy homemade one), which was for the celebrations at his Krippe (daycare):

Here are some of his teachers & friends at his daycare, singing Happy Birthday.

Here he is blowing out the candles, even before the cake is properly on the table – hahhahahaa ;), he wanted to get to the opening of the presents part quickly!

All in all they were nice simple celebrations. We may do something bigger next year when he understands more & can ask for more for his party.

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We’ve hit another milestone in the growing life of Tobias.

We put together his big bed today – he was so excited when he heard about in the morning after breakfast. He kept saying,”New bed, new bed.” over & over. My darling hubby had lots of work to do & today is a public holiday here (Christ Ascension – catholic holiday) – but in between working, he put up the bed & i sorted out the re-arrangement of furniture after. Tobias tried to help, here’s an example (He is helping to sort out the nails/screws to be used):

Here he is trying to put his plastic blue scissors into good use:

& here’s what his room looks like now:

Oh i should explain why we have the bunk beds – we bought these beds from a family who were going home but they wanted to sell it as a set & not split the beds up (the beds can be set up as 2x separate beds) – so we took the lot. It would have costed us twice as much to get Tobias a new single bed.

By the way, we will be hitting another milestone come Sunday – He’ll be turning 3 years old!!! Time really flies!
Unfortunately he has been running a slight fever since his nap – hopefully it all goes away by morning & we can go to the celebration thingy for his birthday at his daycare.

We will also be having a celebration in church – will post about both celebrations.
All in all – a good day.
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