Hannah turned 3 on the 9th and then Josiah turned 1! How did that happen, my little babies getting all grown-up. I especially can’t believe how fast Josiah’s first year has gone by…. anyways…
We have a rule that the kids are allowed to sit on the same number of stairs as they are years so the very first thing Hannah did on her third birthday was to run up 3 steps and sit looking very pleased with herself! Next there was time to open a couple of presents from both sets of grandparents before the wild rumpus started.


We invited Hannah’s bornehave class around to celebrate her birthday and this is how it looked right before they showed up.


All the kids came in and made themselves at home but it was no problem rounding them up for cake! They sang a Danish birthday song for her and then had her sit on a special birthday chair.

and then Daddy helped her blow out candles.


and then it was time for the playing to start!



This all looks much calmer than it was but Hannah had a ball. I think she was slightly overwhelmed by all the kids rushing in to play with all her things but she’s still talking about her birthday and the kids coming to visit. There was just one point that she needed a break and hid out where we usually keep the warrior!
After a nice long nap to get over all the excitement and when Daddy had come home from work, it was time to open all the rest of her gifts, which took rather a long time, and yes, it does seem kind of odd that you’re not allowed to play with your new things because you have to open more new things!
Here’s Hannah enjoying her Happy Birthday song,

opening gifts

and opening her and Josiah’s present from Great grandma Wava

After that it was time for cooking meat outside with Daddy and collapsing in bed exhausted (and that was just the grown-ups!)
Saturday rolled around with 2 whole new reasons to celebrate. Josiah turned 1 and I won’t say how old Grandma is
We had another party with the kids from church and that was much more relaxed (although it doesn’t look it from this pic).
There was more singing

more candle blowing

more cake eating



and of course some gifts.

(notice how the bigger kids are helping him?

He wanted this one back right away though!

Hannah and Lane decided that Josiah’s birthday present should come in the form of shared belly button showing

Phew, nearly there… Nap time again for the kids and then it was time for Josiah’s final gift opening which was mostly taken care of by Hannah because he really wasn’t that interested after a few minutes!


and to finish off the day, they had lovely baths and wrapped-up in their lovely dressing gowns from Grandma and Britpop.



Both kids had great birthdays and Hannah (not unlike her mother) now thinks that birthdays go on for at least a week