Birthday

I'm not sure if baby Linus is still baby Linus, or if he is big boy Linus now. He seems pretty ambivalent about it. So from now on he shall be referred to as baby big boy Linus- or BBBLinus for short.

So he is now 2, and we're not entirely sure where the last year has gone. I suspect we may have ben caught in some kind of time-warp. But as we're here now we may as well have some cake. Linus didn't want a party, he told me he was going to stay upstairs. He did deign to come down and open some presents though- with persuasion and once down it all seemed ok. Most situations are ok when you have presents.

I was slightly more prepared than last year. Most of the party food was done the night before and all that was left on the big day was putting balloons out, making sandwiches and babyproofing the house. The guests started to arrive at 11, with the party due to continue until 2. We had 3 babies and 5 toddlers to contend with which was fun! In fact they all played rather nicely together for the most part and enjoyed the craft table I had set up. Linus mostly enjoyed the glitter which got emptied by the potfull over his work of art, and also over Saskia who was sitting next to him.

Some rather incessant whingeing and leg grabbing around 12ish alerted me to the fact that it was lunch time and so we laid out the food and tucked in. All except Linus who demanded "clocklack" and "caaaake". After much tantrumming, tears and throwing of food the cake duly appeared and Linus did an awfully good job of blowing his candles out, which is odd because he's never blown candles out before!

And that was about it. He is now the proud owner of a teaset, sticklebricks, a train set, some lovely books, bath toys, a space hopper, some new clothes, noddy toys and plenty of money. All in all a great day.