Benny's Bofday

Oh how time flies! How can it be that my wee baby boy is 3 years old already! a few days old

chocolate fondue for his 1st Birthday (a classic Benny photo) 2nd Birthday

And now here he is a big three person...

Rebe couldn't wait to give him his present. She made him a really cool Dogger t-shirt.

He's so delighted with it and wore it all day long.


We had planned a fishing trip for him, just him and Andy with his own little flask and things, but the weather was so bad, we resorted to plan B: reading Dogger, a 'bit watch lelly' and making birthday cake.

I always love baking with the kids.

And they love it just as much.

Lambie cake :-)


When Rebe came home from school we had his birthday party.

blowing out his candles

opening presents

fabulous wooden cars from his aunt and uncle

a very sweet little tea set to go with all the other kitchen things Bubs and Man sent.

The nearly finished play kitchen. It has had so much play already and Andy and I are really pleased with it, but probably not as pleased as the children are :-)

After presents we had the birthday feast, pizza rolls, cris-mis-mis-mis-mis (crisps), little sausages and of course Lambie cake.

The afternoon was still pretty wet, so we did some drawing...

There's nothing as inspirational as a new set of pencils.

Then Joa was going mental, so I decided we should go out for a walk. We went into the woods and played on the little beach for ages making our own aquarium in a little rock pool and looking in other rock pools to find creatures to inhabit it.

It was lots of fun! We had Benny's favourite dinner (pasta pockets) and then we managed to skype with 'Witchart', Benny's idol and my little brother.

We ended the day with one of Benny's new stories in bed. All in all it was a pretty perfect day for Benny.

***I have felt pangs of guilt at times that I didn't do more for the boys this year. I made them very little and the play kitchen isn't finished (it still needs a tap and some hooks). I didn't have any kind of party for them with friends invited. I just needed to keep it small and simple this year, as small and simple as possible. I think they had fun though and it has been another lesson in letting go for me. For realising that my own dreams are too big sometimes and that the day will still be fun and special with just a few simple celebrations and allowing other people to do pretty much all of the gifting.

On a real plus side I have had 3 days filled with joy. It's been brilliant, I have felt nothing was a chore and I was very much in control of my own emotions. I have felt in touch and happy and have really enjoyed everyone and everything around me. It's my goal to feel like that every day of my life :-)***

hugs x