Kai has received tons of great birthday gifts from family and friends - and one of them was the stencil kit (Thank you very much Mr. and Mrs. Holman!).
"I am ready, mum."
Looks like he is actualy doing a pretty good job, from this angle, huh?
Unfortunatelly...
His attention span was quite short this morning, as shown in this picture.
Kai also got new additions to his Lego collection from both sets of grandparents.
Kai turned three today - I cannot believe it has been already/only three years since he joined our family...
Since we have been talking about his upcoming birthday for quite some time, Kai knew he was having a birthday and birthday party.
But when I tried to sing a birthday song for him the first thing in the morning, he stopped me, saying "You have to sing it with a cake! There's no cake!" (Or was it just a polite excuse to stop me?)
Well, we had a small party to celebrate his birthday - just my parents and a couple of very old friends and their family.
Everybody enjoying G's homemade pizzas/salad (Kudos for G, who had to slave himself for hours in the kitchen for this lunch!)
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you. --
G's homemade birthday cake! (from a Nigella Lawson book - serious amount sugar and butter here.)
Kai's big moment.
As I said, the cake contained serious amount of sugar - as you can see it from Kai's face. He has lost the ability to control his expressions...
Kai's got so many great presents from everybody - thank you very much!
However, I have to say, the person who enjoyed those gifts the most could be his dad...(Here, boys working on some engineering).
Today, despite the weather forecast (rain in the afternoon, and yep, we got rained), we ventured out to the Kasai-Rinkai park to have a little family picnic.
Boys eyeing each other's food.
G's special sandos were huge hits.
Kai ate 2 of these and a couple of plums - a growing boy or what?!
After filling up, it was time to kick some balls.
Then, moving to the beach front...
By the way, the reason why Kai is looking a bit like a hamster is because he has a handful of cranberries in his mouth.
It was nice way to keep him quiet.
The moment we got to the beach, he started to dig up...
Today was such a nice day, so we took advantage of the weahter and went back to Kai's favourite pond.
I promise, this is a new picture. He is just wearing the same clothes (almost - he has his brand new shoes on!).
He spent almost an hour chasing dragonflies - they were all over the place,
After all that running, he needed some refueling.
And we walked (well, he basically ran all the way up to the park - this kid is seriously full of energy at the moment) to a new park where you can see the Pacific (okay okay, it's really the Tokyo Bay, it just sounds better to call it pacific, doesn't it?).
After dinner - G was making some special Friday Gin and Tonic and Kai insisted on sucking a piece of Lemon.
We both expected some kind of dramatic reaction (yep, we are evil), but surprisingly, Kai enjoyed the taste of Lemon. Here, he is amusing himself with his own reflection on the window.
