Oscar is 4!!!!

Yes my baby boy is now a four year old. On the 24th August - had a monster party at our house since Kirsti was here to help (thank god). About 15 kids, assorted adults, a pinata and pass the parcel - jelly rabbits, home made cupcakes - a brilliant brilliant day. K had brought all sorts of goodies from America so party bags were stuffed full (at a fraction of the cost it would have cost if we'd bought stuff here). The theme was Cars (Oz's favourite). Loads of people came, including the Jessup-Morrison clan all the way from Guildford. Photos are here

And a couple of vids from Youtube.....
Pinata joy:

You can see on this one how many kids there were:



Oz had a brilliant day so thank you to everyone for coming, thank you to the weather fairies for enabling it to be such a success - if I'd have had that many kids indoors it would have killed me (and the house)

On a sadder note, Kirsti left the next day and is sorely missed. Oscar managed to distract himself by spending his birthday money (he got £50!) at ToysRUs on a Transformer Jet and an ambulance that makes a myriad of loud obnoxious noises.

Toby had a blast at the party as you can see from the pics. He's averaging a new word every day at the moment - totally amazing. He can now say (and there is more but I can't remember)

• egg
• door
• milk
• fork
• spoon
• mummy
• daddy
• bye bye
• ello (very Sarf London)
• bubble
• biscuit (though it comes out Tibbit)
• hat
• ball
• balloon
• bird
  
• poo poo
• tree
• nummy or yummy (when eating)
  
• oh dear (very funny)
• uh oh (a la teletubby)
  
• ouch
• snack
• drink
• wassat
• juice
• moon
• zoo
• book
• lolly
• Charlie
  
• Lola (guess where he got them from!)
  
• star
• up and down (in the correct context)
  
• and NO (a favourite)

He also puts his finger on his lips and says shhhhhh. Amazing. In this vid you can see him having a phone conversation with his fab lolly where he demonstrates "ello" and "lolly". a lot!