Birthday Boy David

On Saturday it was our David's fifth birthday. He was born at 4 o'clock in the morning of Remembrance Sunday 2005. I remember going out to the car to get to the hospital and it was covered in a thick frost! He was born about 20 minutes after we reached the hospital. (His little brother managed to break that record!)

That day was James' (who was then 5) first time marching with the Boy's Brigade in the Remembrance Day parade. Yesterday David got to march in that parade for the first time too.We were very proud of how well the three boys marched (in the rain!).

For a while now, David has been really keen to get a teddy from the Build-a-Bear shop. That was what he chose for his main birthday present. Our schools finish at lunchtime on a Friday so that's when we headed to the shop. He was so excited picking out his bear (doggy, actually), helping to stuff it, choosing his clothes and filling out his birth certificate. He has called him Patch, and loves him very much.

This is them on the train on the way home.

On Saturday we had a little party for him. He wanted a Pirate theme. 

Whenever I am baking, Alasdair tends to sit beside me on the worktop. Here he is after sticking his nose in the icing sugar while I worked on the birthday cake!

And here is the finished cake.

The first thing the party guests had to do was draw treasure maps or pirate pictures on the paper table cloth. They spent quite a while working on their own little bit.

Then after a few party games we had some pirate food.

I had found these pirate cut out decorations on-line and we placed them throughout the house, with one on the outside of the front door to greet the guests!

That's my brother's wife giving out the juice below. She's quite keen to join the blogging world too but needs to think of a catchy title for a blog. I'm all out of inspiration. Her house is full of boys too and she's a stay at home mum too. Any suggestions?

I bought some indoor sparklers for the cake instead of candles. My theory was it was kind of like the dynamite the pirates would used to blow open the treasure. We couldn't get all 5 of them lit at the same time though, so had to do it in two batches. Still, it meant that the fun lasted a bit longer!

Here is the birthday pirate with his cake.

Happy Birthday handsome!

Gaelic word of the day:

spùinneadair (spyoon-a-jer) - pirate

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Wordless Wednesday (kind-of, well not really at all!)

I have been putting the news channel on the tv every hour or so today, to see the amazing rescue of the trapped Chilean miners. 

Wow. 

Every time another one was winched up and reunited with family was just so special.

I miss my husband when he is away working up north for five days. I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like for those people having their loved ones buried alive for 69 days!

The really special thing was seeing so many of them giving thanks to God for keeping them.

Now, after all that, I feel slightly shallow moving onto some party pictures, but I'm sure the first things those miners want to do is return to normal family life, so here we go.

Just a few wee snaps of Calum's party last Friday.

First we had a little bit of Wii Sports Resort

This was followed by a treasure hunt where they each had the instructions to build a wee Lego model. With each clue they found some of the pieces for their own model. At the end they all sat down to build their models.

Then there was Pass the Parcel - 'Let me see, let me see!'

The next Lego challenge was to build a little racer that we would race in the kitchen to see whose was the fastest.

Here they all are lined up at the start of the race. 

In keeping with both the Lego theme and the Star Wars theme from his actual birthday, I made some Lego Star Wars cupcakes. 

At bedtime, Calum & his friend (and David) got to sleep in James' room because he was on a sleepover too, and watched a DVD on the portable DVD player. 

There's little Alasdair at the bottom going in to see what they are all up to!

Oh yes, and don't forget the party bags. An assortment of Lego stuff and Star Wars stuff. 

(The little sticks at the bottom are those snap and glow ones. They are kind of like light sabres when they glow!)

Gaelic word(s) of the day:

co-là-breith (coe-laa-bre) - birthday

co-là-breith sona (coe-laa-bre sona) - happy birthday

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