I'll say this for The Bun: kid's got a better social life than me. This weekend mostly revolved around two classmates' birthday parties. We did manage to go to some of the vineyards open for the annual Caves Ouvertes on Saturday morning, but otherwise it was all about hyper kids, lots of noise, and plenty of chocolate cake ( Read more... )

I haven't written a post devoted to just The Bun in a long time, and in some ways he's growing and changing so quickly I really need to capture what he's like, at this precocious and provocative age, five-and-a-half:


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The Bun is five today! It's cliché but where did the time go? I can still remember him as a newborn, nothing much more than a bundle of nerve endings and reflexes. Five years later he is bouncing around at home, talking nonstop (literally), and full of questions, ideas, made-up songs, and funny things to say ( Read more... )

Today was The Bun's birthday party! Okay, his actual birthday is still about five weeks away, but there's only one more week of school before the summer holidays begin and after that no one will be around to attend any parties. I explained this to him and he understood; anyway if I were him I'd be even more pleased because this way he'd get to have ( Read more... )

The Bun is exactly four-and-a-half today, perfect timing for me to capture a snapshot, as it were, about him. He's changed a lot over the last few months and recently whenever I stand next to him I can't help but be surprised at how tall he is now and how he really has grown into a small person of his own ( Read more... )

A couple of the kids from The Bun's class had a joint birthday celebration today, and they invited the entire class to it. This was his first birthday invitation ever since we moved, so The Bun was plenty looking forward to it. We had bought the birthday girl and boy gifts the day before and this morning The Bun carefully scrawled birthday wishes ( Read more... )

*** I posted this last Thursday but LJ decided to eat the entry, so here it is again. ***

Tomorrow will mark the end of The Bun's first month in school. One month! I know not how time flies, but fly it does, and it also proves how time can really ease things. Nerves, especially.


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Tomorrow will mark the end of The Bun's first month in school. One month! I know not how time flies, but fly it does, and it also proves how time can really ease things. Nerves, especially.


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On the day of his birthday, the day he turned four, The Bun announced at bedtime that he would no longer use his pacifier to sleep ( Read more... )

Today we celebrated The Bun's fourth birthday, a day early. Most places are shut on Sundays here so we brought forward the celebration so that we could go out to pick a present and eat out. I had plans to take him to a park as well but there's a heatwave warning for this weekend so that will have to wait for slightly cooler weather ( Read more... )