Birthday fun

Spring is the season of birthdays in our house. Chad's is coming up in just a couple of weeks, but you know the real excitement (sorry Chad!) will be ten days after that, when Liam turns one. The invitations to his party went out last week. We are keeping things pretty low-key - sadly, there will be no ponies or magicians - but I so excited about it nonetheless.

We're currently discussing what to get Liam for his birthday. Far from this being a daunting task, I have a list of things a mile long that I would like to get him, and the task is going to be narrowing it down to something reasonable. First up is a little kiddie craft table and chairs for the playroom - looking forward to making construction paper chains and handprint turkeys with him...

Summer is coming up - I think a kiddie pool would be fun. I was thinking more along the lines of Turtle Pool, but Chad wants a pool big enough for himself to lie down in. Sounds like Chad might be using this pool more than Liam!! This pool is at Canadian Tire and I think the people must be superimposed into the picture, because from the dimensions listed on the website, there's no way you're fitting eight people into this thing. We're also still looking into a bike seat... a lifejacket, so we can go canoeing in Algonquin this summer... maybe some sort of play set for the back yard... a wagon (we don't know how much we would use it this summer, but definitely at some point we will)... don't even get me near a Toys R Us; the problem here is not a lack of ideas, but too many of them, and the need to edit them down.