Birthday magic

Just a bit over twenty-four hours ago, Lego Lover’s fifteenth birthday ended. Like all his birthdays, it was magical. He was full of joy and happiness throughout the day and took pleasure in just about every part of it. This is one of the things I like best about Lego Lover. He hasn’t lost that pleasure in having a birthday. Or that pleasure in the Christmas season.

Every year December 1 is incredibly important for being the first day of advent. He gets to start opening his Lego City Advent calendar and it’s often the first thing he thinks about. It also is his dad’s birthday, which sometimes gets pushed behind the advent calendar in priority of the day. On the first Saturday of the month, it’s time to put up the Christmas tree. In the past, Lego Lover mostly assisted the Scientist in all the goings on. This year he took on quite a bit more of the workload and enjoyed every minute of it.

The next weeks always are the period of anticipation but there’s always the promise of an advent calendar treasure with each passing day. Finally, it reaches December 23rd and another birthday arrives. He makes every effort to be up early on the day and his face is filled with a smile from the time he wakes up. When he gets his gifts, usually around the middle of the day, the smile widens with the pleasure of whatever he’s been given. This year it was a rather massive Transformers Omega Supreme set that he’d expressed considerable interest in when it was put on special in the middle of the year. It had been purchased in July but when Lego Lover made his gift list, it wasn’t on it. Not to worry, though, as he’d not realised it was even possible to be considered for his list due to not being available in the shops recently. There were several other Transformer gifts, including some dvd sets and a couple of Lego Hero Factory sets.

In the evening, there were visits from a couple family members and then his favorite pizza from our local shop. Then it’s time for cake and to keep working on building the Lego sets and showing off everything else.

Finally it reaches the end of the day and he’s still as happy as he was when the day started with that lovely smile still working its magic. He was still up well past midnight last night and was rather keen to share his birthday with his grandma in the US. She hadn’t made an appearance on Skype yet and I turned it off, thinking it was time for bed. But because he was so keen, I turned it back on, and grandma did make an appearance so he was able to stretch his birthday out just a bit longer. At the end of the chat, he was tired but very much still happy.

His birthday magic is just the joy and happiness of his special day. It’s so infectious that it makes many of the people around him feel quite happy too and that’s why I think of it as magic even though magic doesn’t really exist.