He was 5 yesterday. We had a relatively quiet birthday. There was no big party and so no need for 'clarking it'*, which was a relief at least.
We'd had a good family-focused weekend, with some preparation for his birthday, present purchasing etc. It has become a bit of a Clark tradition that you make your own birthday cake, so Jonathan and Joel got on with that on Saturday.
On Sunday Joel took some of the cake to Sunday School, we had a fairly quiet afternoon and evening at home.
Yesterday (Monday 22) Joel, Hannah and Jonathan went to school as usual. Joel took some of his cake to school. We had some presents and cards at lunchtime and spent most of the afternoon playing with Lego. (I, sadly, had to leave them to it and go to school!) Whilst I was away, Giorgos (George) Adam (our pastor) and his son (middle of 3) Dimitris popped in with presents for all 3 kids! I returned at 6ish. We have begun to make friends with a Canadian family who LITERALLY live around the corner and work for Hellenic Ministries. They are Heath and Meriko Miekle and they have 2 kids, Kiara (10) and Darius (6). Meriko and the kids came over for cake and stuff at around 6, so that's when we had candles and official happy birthday singing. Then it was just birthday bath and bed. Nice.
I don't think Joel related this year's birthday to last year's, so he was fine and really enjoyed it. He has also enjoyed the elongated nature of his birthday, with cards and presents still arriving! Thanks so much to all who have sent anything, we've all really appreciated it.
Below are a few photos of Lego we've made (mostly Joel - he's wired for this sort of thing, he's ALWAYS loved puzzles and putting stuff together and following written instructions...), enjoy?!
We'd had a good family-focused weekend, with some preparation for his birthday, present purchasing etc. It has become a bit of a Clark tradition that you make your own birthday cake, so Jonathan and Joel got on with that on Saturday.
On Sunday Joel took some of the cake to Sunday School, we had a fairly quiet afternoon and evening at home.
Yesterday (Monday 22) Joel, Hannah and Jonathan went to school as usual. Joel took some of his cake to school. We had some presents and cards at lunchtime and spent most of the afternoon playing with Lego. (I, sadly, had to leave them to it and go to school!) Whilst I was away, Giorgos (George) Adam (our pastor) and his son (middle of 3) Dimitris popped in with presents for all 3 kids! I returned at 6ish. We have begun to make friends with a Canadian family who LITERALLY live around the corner and work for Hellenic Ministries. They are Heath and Meriko Miekle and they have 2 kids, Kiara (10) and Darius (6). Meriko and the kids came over for cake and stuff at around 6, so that's when we had candles and official happy birthday singing. Then it was just birthday bath and bed. Nice.
I don't think Joel related this year's birthday to last year's, so he was fine and really enjoyed it. He has also enjoyed the elongated nature of his birthday, with cards and presents still arriving! Thanks so much to all who have sent anything, we've all really appreciated it.
Below are a few photos of Lego we've made (mostly Joel - he's wired for this sort of thing, he's ALWAYS loved puzzles and putting stuff together and following written instructions...), enjoy?!
Joel, Giorgos and Dimitris enjoying Joel's birthday present - a early-reader in Greek.
Darius with Joel's birthday cake and other birthday stuff.
The House That Joel Built 
Some of Joel's birthday vehicles!
* 'clarking it' - a term coined by some very good friends in Beeston. It means implementing big plans at the VERY last minute: quite a lot of 'stress' but very little anxiety, if you know what I mean! Was first coined on reflection of the way that we had prepared for (or thought a lot about but not done much in preparation for) Hannah's 2nd birthday party.
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