Happy 1st birthday!

The girls hardly could wait for Maltes first birthday to come. Today though was the big day. They loved Malte having his birthday as they were allowed to unwrap most of the presents. Malte seemed more interested in cake, balloons and wrapping paper.

We had a very special sparkling number 1 on his cake!

He loved watching it but it didn´t last long enough.

He loved the balloons and garlands!

For breakfast Malte enjoyed a piece of his cake - the girls did, too.

His new birthday shirt saying lucky devil.

I just want to share some of Maltes lovely presents with you. He got some new animal building blocks ...

... and he really was busy with them.

He got a new jigsaw and he loves to empty it - undoing is no issue though. Now we have to work on the fixing of the jigsaw part.

The girls love to be read to and Lotte enjoys reading on her own, too. To get Malte to read some more we got a book to be fixed at his buggy - a so called buggy-book. Lotte and Hilde both had a buggy book. Why we don´t use them anymore? While having long walks the girls started biting on them and both of the books are kind of gone....

Ever seen such a happy cow? The other animals are for sure very cute, too.

I am very sure that this T-Shirt will cause trouble. Having two kids will always mean: nobody did it and if somebody did it, it makes the other one having it done. Got it? Now I thought, if Lotte and Hilde would not have done it, it will be Malte. Logical. But this T-Shirt actually saves Malte not only because it is beautiful dutchie orange, no, it says: whatever it is, it wasn´t me! But who was it then?

Since we have a boy, our car pool grows slowly but steadily. The little two cars in front of the picture are new. The others we already had. I bought both of the cars and because I couln´t find a black, red, gold striped one I chose the dutch orange one.

And just because I have the feeling that he will get lots more cars (not only wooden ones) I also bought a special HABA car bag. When I saw that one I just had to have it. If Malte doesn´t want to use it, I will.

I could get almost all the HABA stuff ...

Too cute!

And then my two best friends gave presents to make sure that Malte will stay fashioned. I am sure that they don´t have each others email addres so it must have been telepathy. I would have loved meeting with both of you and I especially want to thank you for the lovely presents. Tomorrow morning I will dress him up. So stay tuned.

There always need to be flowers for a birthday and because he is a boy, there were blue ones today.

I want to thank everybody for thinking of Malte and our family on this very special day. I want to thank you for all emails, phone calls and presents Malte got today (even though I did not show them all on the blog). Warmest wished, good luck and health to everybody.