Our youngest son is 6! It seems like just a short while ago
that we landed in Cyprus just weeks before Ethan's birth! Time really does fly!
Ethan is the most adventurous and intriguing little guy I know. He has an
incredible sense of imagination and can play for hours in his dress-ups. His
perseverance and inquisitiveness are 2 characteristics I really admire about
him! He’s not push-over! I love the things he builds and makes and try so hard
not to stifle his creativity.
His 6th birthday coincided with the first day of
the George Show where we launched our Kiddie Gourmet products. I knew I
wouldn’t have any time before the show to bake him a cake or have a party, so
we discussed with him that we’d do that sometime after the show. We still
wanted to make his day a special celebration …. And this is how we did it:
We were all up just after 6am – a VERY early start for our
family! Ryan and Jed were in the kitchen and cooking up a storm short after
waking up so that I could have a quick shower and get ready for the day. I
helped them finish off the cooking and breakfast was served around 7am. Ethan’s
wish had been to have a ‘Wimpy-style breakfast’ … fried eggs, bacon, sausages,
baked beans and toast. And we gave him just that. Ouma sat him at the head of
the table on a chair decorated like a throne. She then decorated a tall
sandwich with chocolate flakes and put some candles in so he could blow them
out (even though we didn’t have a cake!). We ate like kings, and it was yummy!
Ryan and Jed did a great job!
After breakfast we all gave Ethan his birthday presents
which he was thrilled to receive. Gifts are definitely his love-language! What
impressed me was the excitement with which he opened very single gift and card,
he was genuinely thrilled! He loved his gifts!
Dieter and I rushed off soon after breakfast, leaving Ethan
and Aimee to watch his new Fireman Sam DVD from Nana. Ryan and Jed helped Oupa
and Ouma tidy up after breakfast. Coffee time is a ritual in our home and Ethan
and I had chosen special biscuits and chips for him and his siblings to enjoy
outside over a tea-time picnic. After their picnic they all got in the car with
Oupa and Ouma to redeem Ethan’s birthday voucher for an overall. (Ethan had
outgrown and left his old overall behind in Cyprus, he was thrilled to get
another RED one!) He was too big for a 8-year old overall but fits into the 12
year-old overall with room to grow. Now his fireman outfit is complete again!
Ouma and Oupa then bought them all to the show for a few
hours. Ethan and his siblings mostly wandered around enjoying the rides and
agricultural displays by themselves, but Dieter and I did venture out with them
now and again. After a yummy lunch of cheeseburgers and crisps, they took one
more walk outside to the rides before heading home with Oupa and Ouma for an
hour or so. Their timing was great as the wind began to pick up, the sun
disappeared behind dark clouds and it began to drizzle. It was bitterly cold.
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