The birthday blog

How can a birthday last three days? Well it does if your name's Tommy.


Saturday started with a birthday lunch at Rodizio Rico. Grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends in attendance. Tommy seemed to be most impressed with dessert - although not the passionfruit mousse. He also showed a worrying like of a piece of discarded beef fat. But Tommy wasn't there to eat. The highlight of his time was running round and round the table (with various people cahsing him at times) and generally making sure he was the centre of everyone's attention. Oh, and there was the added fun of emptying thousands of advertising cards over the floor.

Unsurprisingly, he fell asleep in the car on the way home. We woke him up to get out and he wasn't impressed. Beth tried to convince him that he wanted to open his presents but he was totally unimpressed and quickly went to bed. Unfortunately for Beth, she left very unhappy, having had to unwrap (and re-wrap) one of the presents to get a reacting from me. He was clearly exhausted by the whole day because when he woke up, the only thing he wanted to do was to lie on the sofa with a bottle (until he fell asleep again).


Sunday we went to Tia Uka's new house: a joint housewarming and Tommy's second party. He was highly impressed with his new Thomas hat and Thomas trolley rucksack, which he dragged all through the mud in the garden, and up and down the hall and kitchen. And there was a Thomas cake. He threw a monster tantrum when he saw it in the cupboard but wasn't allowed to have it, so much so that we had cake before lunch. Tommy (and various adults who are old enough to know better) enjoyed blowing out the candles. Tommy also enjoyed prodding the icing around and ripping the covering off the side of the engine.


Monday was the actual day. Two years old. We didn't make a fuss first thing because he had the health visitor coming. Once that was over we let him opened his presents. The first thing he opened was a golf set. Once he'd got that open he was totally uninterested in anything else. Yuri had to convince him to divert his attention by half opening the next present and telling him he could see Bob Bob (the Builder). Then he went for that one and insisted on having the box open so he could play with the toys. And the whole thing started all over again. Meanwhile, Yuri was getting incredibly frustrated that Tommy wouldn't just open all the presents at once. I personally thought it was very cute - it's not like he's going to act like that with presents for much longer. The rest of the day was spent more quietly. He slept, he watched the Incredibles (another present), played with his new toys and tried to refuse to go to bed at the end of the day. But I think he enjoyed it.


Am sure there'll be some pictures up when Yuri gets around to it - I don't know how to work the thing!