Wednesday, August 25, 2004

The Fabulously Elastic Birthday....

Maia is loving the fact that, due to her many international family members and guardians, her second birthday bonanza is stretching far beyond the more traditional one-day celebration.

She comes home from the Funny Farm singing 'Happy Birthday' and says 'Time for presents!' quite alot...

She even managed to bring some birthday cheer to our trip to the park this weekend. We were happily pottering about under the trees in St Albans park when it started to look like rain. We hightailed it into the cathedral, where Maia happened upon the votive candles, sending the faithful's prayers up to the heavens.

In a loud and clear voice, which fully took advantage of the amazing acoustics in the building, she started to belt out 'Happy Birthday to you....' and then wanted to blow them all out. I had to explain that this wasn't really done. There was a gaggle of old ladies sat in front of the candles who thought that this was seriously sweet, and they laughed and fawned over her, so she wasn't too disappointed.


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