The middle of the year is a big time for balloons and birthdays in our house. It’s handy that it’s gone all cold and rainy outside, because that just means more time indoors to play with the mountain of presents that are coming!
First up was William’s birthday, who turned three. The little fella’s already starting preschool at his daycare, so it feels a bit like he’s catching me up with age.
The big thing he’s crazy about are The Wiggles. Every day when we get home he asks about watching them, lying down on the couch, wrapped up in a blanket and cuddling the Wiggles car soft toy. Actually my Wiggles car soft toy, but I’m being a good big brother by letting him borrow it.
So it was no surprise that his birthday party had a Wiggles theme. Balloons hanging up everywhere in the Wiggles colours, and a huge multi-coloured cake complete with Wiggles car on top!
Now that he’s getting bigger he’s starting to get some pretty cool presents, like the dinosaur Lego set. Mum and Dad are definitely encouraging him helping out doing jobs around the house, since they got him a little broom and some earmuffs for mowing the lawns. I’m too smart for that – I ask for presents that involve no work around the house!
After that I had to wait four whole weeks for my birthday to arrive. Boy that time sure goes slow when you’re thinking of all the presents you’re going to get!
Luckily it was worth it when I unwrapped a great space shuttle Lego set, a book about space, a Hot Wheels activity book and some clothes with pictures of dinosaurs on them. And not a broom, vacuum cleaner, duster or any other housework thing in sight!
I had a hard time choosing what cake I wanted this year. Maybe Transformers, but that might be hard to make (even if I’d like to transform a whole cake into an Ollie-eaten cake!). Or super heroes, but I had that last year when I turned five. So it was an Angry Birds cake instead, because I’ve played the game so much over the last year and completed so many levels.
To help celebrate, we took my old daycare friend Damiyn and new school friend Michael to a cool indoor play place called Magic Loft. It was huge and filled with cars to drive, ball pits to dive into, trampolines to bounce around on, and cupcakes to eat when we took a break from all the driving, diving and bouncing. Even William joined in the fun – you can see him climbing up the steps in the picture.
Best of all, the birthday fun keeps on going. Because I’ve been so busy, I haven’t seen Grandma, Grandad or Aunt Val yet, which means I don’t have any presents from them. So even though I’m two weeks past my sixth birthday now, I can still look forward to greeting them at the front door with my usual question of “Have you brought me any presents?”
And this time, they will have!
