As you might expect the birthday day started early but not necessarily for the reasons you might expect. At about 6am Tracy and I woke suddenly to see a dark shape looming over us. It was Harry. It wasn’t an excited, happy, eager to open his presents Harry but a Harry whose throat and neck really hurt. It was all dry and he was starting to cry so emergency medical help in the shape of a bottle of water was required. He had a few gluggs, was wished a happy birthday and told to go back to bed!
Just after 7am the birthday started again! Harry arrived in our room and got a round of birthday songs. Toby arrived soon after with a present and some more songs. Harry opened this first present and was possibly slightly underwhelmed. Toby had been given the option of a number of presents to give to his big brother however none of them had really appealed. They didn’t quite have the feel of that certain something he wanted to give his brother. So a couple of days earlier Toby had gone into the playroom and picked out something to give to Harry as a present! So, the first present of Harry’s 9th birthday was a toy lorry that Toby had found in the playroom!
Once Toby had stopped laughing we went downstairs so Harry got to open some proper presents:
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As each present was opened by Harry it was accompanied by “ooh, I wanted one of those” from Toby. Harry didn’t manage to have the same (slightly forced) patience Toby had with presents on his birthday. He knew the school bus would wait for no-one so he ripped through them!
There was then a lull in the birthday celebrations due to the interruptions of school, although his birthday was announced over the school tannoy, his school dinner pin machine wished him a happy birthday and they got a longer recess because everyone was singing happy birthday to him.
In the afternoon Toby had his Coyotes soccer practice before we could go out to the restaurant of Harry’s choice. This week the Coyotes were playing the Panthers in what turned out to be a tough old battle. Toby had gone to the match intending to score one goal for his brother but as it turned out Toby put in (another) man of the match performance and scored a hat-trick. Coyotes won 5-3, with Toby dedicating one goal to his brother, one to his mum and one to his dad.
Once we got home and gave Harry his birthday cake, we jumped in the car and went to Zeeks Pizza in Kirkland. After throwing lots of dough at each other and eating yummy pizza we went home for chocolate cake. When we got home Tracy went upstairs with Toby while Harry and I put the TV on. A little while later we went upstairs and found both of them asleep in bed! And with that birthday month in Bellevue was over!
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Harry and Toby playing football manager on his new laptop:
