All I want for my birthday is my 2 front teeth

lso

and he got 1 of them. On the morning of Alexander's 1st birthday on the 02nd Feb, the little angel got his first tooth cutting through. It looks quite sore and red and sharp, but it doesn't seem to be bothering him. Nothing seems to bother that kid much. I can't get to take a pic coz he won't let me but I'll wait till he's sleeping one day and take one.

The photo above (the spotty outfit one) was actually the only one I took of him on his actual birthday (note the teething drool) because we didn't do much, other than take Thomas swimming and run around and prepare for the party the next day. Came home and had a swim and babs had a nap, and I went to buy Alexander's bday pressie, a house shaped tent from Mr Price and went to tackle pick n pay.

Was a bit worried about the power because Friday night (the 01st Feb) the power went out at 20h30. Mor was here for dinner and we had just finished eating. Lucky we had candles on and Craig got all our charged camping lights out. It's quite cosy in a way but no joke with all these power cuts and load shedding. This one was out for 6 hours and was we found out the next day was just about the whole Cape penisula. Scary times we live in! I guess loads of load shed babies will be born in 9 months time (no pun intended)

So, the party went very well. We spent the morning cleaning up and getting the house ready. Craig put all the cushions and orning out. Then it started pouring!! Great, I finally have a baby born in summer to have a summer party and it rains! but luckily it cleared up. The weather report had said overcast but 24 degrees and 0% chance of rain. Well I guess the weather can be wrong sometimes. So Craig put all the cushions out again. The family and friends arrived at 12h00ish. Liesl came a bit earlier and bought bagels, quiches and the beautiful fish shaped cake.

There was a good mix of kids. Sam and Alexander 4 months apart. Max and Finley both 2 years old, Aidan, Gian Luca, Thomas and Jasmine all between 4 and 7 years old.

So everything went very well. Alexander overdosed on sugar. He ate flings, birthday cake, sour worms, smarties, humus, liver pate and tsatsiki and whatever else he could find on the ground. I'm surprised he didn't choke.

We sang Happy birthday to both kids, and opened pressies. Got spoilt again. Thomas of course helped with opening them and wanted to open all the boxes too. In fact he was not too keen to let Alexander play with his own birthday presents.