5 Years Old: Party #3

On Monday, his actual birthday, he had Party #3: the party at school. When it is your birthday you get to sit on the birthday chair, wear the birthday hat and hand out treats. You can see the chair in the background, the hat on his head and the treats in the container. The treats were cupcakes, iced to Tobias' specifications: blue icing for boys, pink icing for girls :-). He put the sprinkles on himself (matching the icing color...).

The kids sing songs for him and the parents can come and join the spectacle. It was a Monday, so I had to work, but Lisa was there (lucky duck!). She took this picture. Doesn't he look proud?

Now that he is 5 years old he is going to do lots of things differently:
- He is going to dress himself (he was already able to do that, but we had to help to speed up things a lot of times... now he actually does it himself)
- He is going to eat more vegetables, and much to our surprise, I cooked brocolli the day after his birthday and he told me I was a good cook and that brocolli was the best thing in the world (tied with poffertjes, pancakes and pasta pesto spekkies :-))
- He is going to eat more vegetables, and when we went shopping last weekend he picked apples and ate them too (he also had a few tangarines, but that takes him forever to eat!)
- He is going to play with friends at their house, and he has done that a few times now, as a matter of fact, he is going to Gijs' house this afternoon (before he would always have friends over to our place because he did not want to go to theirs
- He is going to bike to school, but of course, as you may have read before, he was already doing that anyway, and in fact we haven't done that this year because of icy streets and sidewalks...

Tobias usually keeps promises like this and so fas he has kept these promises too (more or less... :-)). He is such a big boy!


For news on Tobias' sister Lorelei visit: Lorelei Michelle