Today I am THREE!

Hi there,

I am so tired after my huge adventure filled day that Mummy said I could borrow my post from her blog (www.lattejunkie.com) So here is her take on the day and I will write some more about it tomorrow,

It was awesome!!

Mommy calls me Monkey on her blog and Daddy is Stud1!

Monkey's third birthday!

Monkey woke up to a room of balloons (or forty to be exact) and his chosen breakfast of oats and berries. Stud1 was rather disappointed at the chosen breakfast - I'm guessing Monkey will be prepped for the next year to say "cinnamon buns and bacon" 

He was slightly disconcerted that the birthday fairies hadn't arrived but after breakfast he walked into the lounge and they had snuck in and left a pile of goodies.

Then it was time to open all the presents.

He was spoilt rotten.

Thank you to Nyamanyama and Gramps for the clothes, book, pirates and the 3D puzzle, to Aunty Sharon and Aunty Jacolien for the shark t-shirts - Mummy  LOVES me having unique (for NZ) shirts!,  Aunty Sarah and Uncle Richard for the pirate ship puzzle, Nanna for the Gruffalo DVD and the moon hopper (my current favourite) and of course Mummy and Daddy for the guitar, meccano and wobble stilts.

We packed the car and set out to the park. I commandeered a table while Stud1 hauled all the food and goodies to the table. After we set up and all the guests arrived, we had a ball! There was laughing and chasing and Miss Amerikiwi was very brave to be out with the boys , even, with her broken collar bone.

 

 

I think all the kids had such fun and I hope the grown ups did too!

Highlights included - 

• Monkey singing happy birthday to himself in the middle of the field and singing the  same line OVER and OVER again.
• LittleRod giving everyone kisses and letting Littlest Amerikiwi have a ride on his trike.
• Neo looking for the trains
• Monkey opening BusyIssy's present (wrapped in jellybean wrapping paper) and saying - "Snail* was wrong! There's no jelly beans in here"
• Any number of falls off bikes and trikes with no tears
• The littlest members of our group wearing pirate hats and looking adorable!
• Monkey calling for all the other children at the park to join him opening his presents.
• Coffee Group Girls - you rock! Nothing more to say! You rock!

And then this evening we went out for dinner to Lone Star and they gave him a T-shirt to commemorate his 3rd birthday. We had a lovely dinner and he was impeccably behaved.

Then the cherry on the top of an amazing day was when he thanked me for a perfect day, marvelled at all the stars he could see and made a wish on the shooting star he swore he saw!




*Snail - imaginary friend, who recently acquired a brother and an ability to fly and two feet.

**More photos to follow tomorrow.

Our Trip to Brisbane.

Gallery of Modern Art - Cubic Exploration

GOMA

Infinity Room

Brisbane City Library

Botanic Gardens and Mangrove Swamp

Museum of Brisbane

Science Centre

China Town and Roma St Park

CitiCat en route to New Farm Park

New Farm Park

Sea World

Sea World Monorail

Pirates!

Sleeping beauty and butterflies

Our Monarch caterpillar creating its chrysalis

The poor butterfly's wing dried badly 

I started Kindy!

Yes, you read that right. I am a big boy now and go to afternoon Kindy three times a week.

I have been twice now and love it! I am allowed to do all sorts of fun things, like painting, playing in the sand, climbing things, reading, drawing and hammering real nails!

Mummy has been very brave and will be leaving me on my own tomorrow. I am not worried but Mummy will be very bored for the two hours without me.

Both Mummy and Daddy have seen me in action at the kindy and they are very proud of me. I play nicely with the other children and I don't forget my manners. I like listening to the teachers and can go to the loo all on my own when they remind me to go.

The kindy is about a 10 minute walk away from our house and Mummy says I can ride my bike next week. I can't wait.

Mummy will take some pictures in the week and let you see what it looks like :)

The weeks that were in pictures

Vegetarian Pizza - yummmmy!

 Mummy has been making us vegetarian food lately, it's really yummy.

Greek Rice

 We have been to the ASB Garden Magic Concerts twice this year, I really enjoy them. We meet Daddy at work and then have a picnic supper in the garden while we wait for the band to come on stage. They light up the gardens and there are bubble machines and light displays that move.

My favourite part is eating Gelato in my pyjamas!

This week

This week I have been practising riding my bike. I am slowly growing in confidence and I really enjoy riding on my bike.

We have ridden on the Petone Foreshore and today I got really adventurous and we went to Oriental Parade and I rode to two parks along the waterfront.

It was so much fun. I really did well and Mummy and Daddy were so proud of me!

But even more exciting was the ride to the local shop this afternoon with Daddy to buy milk and bread! I was really sensible and looked out for traffic and tried very hard to ride fast!