Birthday excitement
The birthday went off really well, especially considering Lego Lover slept very little the night before. I thought he would become cranky but he managed to hold himself together through the entire day. I think he was on a birthday high all day.
The day started fairly early when he woke in a pretty good mood. We had to wake his brother so that he could open his present or he might have been waiting quite a while. As soon as he saw the package, he knew exactly what he was getting. He just loves his mega sized Transformer. The only problem is it makes sounds/noises quite easily and there’s no way to turn it off. It only takes the slightest touch. It took quite some time to get the parts out of the packaging and then it was a while before it was all together. So Lego Lover had a great time going through this process and afterwards had much opportunity for play.
We worked on making the Lego brick cake in the afternoon. That didn’t go completely pear-shaped but I think we learned a few lessons to improve the end product next time. We used marshmallows, as I had seen suggested online somewhere, and placed them across an already frosted cake. Then I took the remaining frosting and heated it slightly so I could drizzle it over the marshmallows. They didn’t get as covered as would be ideal but the effect was sort of there. Lego Lover liked it.
Once the Scientist finished work, we went to Whiteman Park, a local state park (about five minutes from us), to meet up with family. The plan was to keep it simple with cake, drinks and a few corn chips. Lego Lover received his presents pretty much as he arrived. He ended up with mostly money and a Bionicle set he wanted. We had cake and then it was play time for a while before we headed home to have “Krabby Patties”.
After dinner we went up to Hillary’s Boat Harbour to get an ice cream and returned home soon afterwards. Lego Lover managed to stay awake until midnight but the tiredness ensured he fell asleep pretty quickly that night with sweet dreams of the Christmas to come.
