4 TODAY!

A big HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY to Joshua for today. This year was fabulous as it was the first year Joshua has really understood his special day and has been counting down the sleeps. He woke up so excited this morning and could not wait to get into his presents. That's the fastest I have seen him eat breakfast in a long time!. Anyway all the prep took place the night before as we wrapped all his presents, put up various door banners and inflated the balloons.

Any guesses what the big present is?

4 TODAY.

And there it is, Joshua's main present was his all new 16" Ben 10 bike. Already clocked some serious distance on it as he has been up and down the street a few times plus to school and back this afternoon.

One of his presents from his brother was this interactive Koko train for his Chuggington set.

The other present from his brother was these Ben 10 walkie talkies. I would be lieing if I said I didn't have fun with the boys running around the house with these.

The general theme for his birthday was obviously Ben 10, but then his wrapping paper was Peppa Pig (another current favourite) and then Phineas and Ferb.

 Brandon was entertaining himself with the other balloons (particularly the yellow one - his favourite colour).

Showing off his Ben 10 cycle helmet.

And here is Josh on his Ben 10 bike with hat. 16" was the perfect size for him despite only being 4. Fortunately I appear to have got all the setting just right as well so the bike needed no further adjustment before he was off and riding. Next job is to get him off of those stabilisers.

His other main present was one of the new Vtech Innotabs - Joshua calls is his IPad. He absolutely loves this and has hardly put it down all day. There is just so much for him to do on this from drawing, painting,, reading books, writing, numbers, pictures, music, games and on and on and on. He has grasped the function of the tablet really well and nips between menus and applications completely unassisted!

The Phineas and Ferb birthday cake.

Round 1 saw Joshua blowing out the candles on his own.

Round 2 was a tag team effort as Brandon joined in to help. I'll huff and I'll puff and ...........

All in all Joshua has had a great day. Early in the morning he went to his nursery for a photo with his brother, then in the afternoon he went to pre-school and took some sweets for all his friends. I managed to go into work late and finish early to spend as much time as possible with the birthday boy. Then tonight some of the family came around to join in with his birthday celebrations and bring more presents. Of course the big question is will we ever find Joshua's new meerkat top which Brandon took a liking too and hid in his bedroom somewhere?