Anticipation

It’s Lego Lover’s birthday tomorrow and the anticipation is trying to do him in. He’s been terribly excited for days and today he had to tell me that his birthday is very close about ten or fifteen times. He was so excited he went to bed early tonight. He fell asleep pretty quickly but then I had to close the sliding glass door off the laundry room and he was suddenly awake. I think it was mostly a matter of him sleeping lightly at the time. He’s been struggling to sleep since then, which is really frustrating for him.

Tonight I’ve had the task of blowing up the balloons that were requested. I waited as late as possible to start on it because Game Fanatic has a fear of balloons popping and, consequently, doesn’t like them. The packet is supposed to have twenty-five but we’re coming up a couple short. Maybe this is to make up for an extra one or two last year?

I made a start on the cake today because Lego Lover wants it to look like a brown Lego brick. So tomorrow I am going to do a second mix in cupcake form…or we might try marshmallows to make the brick effect. I’m a bit worried about trying to spread frosting on it so might see if I can get a mini-cupcake tin since ours makes the larged-size ones. The second cake mix is going to be a dairy free version so that I can keep a few out for my dairy and soy-allergic niece.

Lego Lover is getting just one big present from us this year because it’s so expensive. It’s a very big Transformer model that breaks into about six other models or something like that. It was so highly desired he said it could be a combined birthday/Christmas present. One of the department stores here had it on sale for $99, reduced from $150. The one time I saw them in the store, Lego Lover was with me and there were heaps of them. When I was able to get back to buy one, they were all gone…not really that surprising. I’ve been saying it is just too expensive to buy at retail price and the the store where it was on sale had sold out. So he’s not really expecting to get this but I think he’s going to be very happy with it.

I was talking with him earlier today and told him that the start of his being born actually started the day before. I think he enjoyed hearing about some of the things that happened that day. I started having light contractions by the middle of the day. I had gone to our local bakery and the lady there was aghast that I was out doing normal things while I was in labor. She also announced they had sold the bakery and introduced me to the new owner.  I didn’t reach full-on labor until later that night and we finally left of the hospital around 11pm. Lego Lover was finally born at 6:30 the next morning by c-section.