He looks like a miniature Errol Brown

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY SMALLEST.

It was a turbulent night. The wind was whistling wildy all through the night and then at 12:30am Smallest came into our room in a right state. He had had a bad dream where a different Mummy and a different Small were not very nice to him. He was very upset and stayed in our bed until he deemed it too warm between us and went back to his room armed with my Piglet. He let me have his Eco Eric and went off to sleep with his lamp on. At around 2am he came back in and gave me Piglet back. At 7am both boys came in wanting to start the birthday celebrations. We sent them away until 7:30am, at which time they came back, jumped on the bed and we sang Happy Birthday. Smallest started by opening his cards and reading them. Then it was present opening time. Moo's present of Pokemon Stuff was very happily received plus a slinky which he promised would not be tied in knots. Small bought him (well I say he bought) a tub of Pringles and a Phineus and Ferb magazine.

We bought him a much wanted HexBug and we cannot for the life of us get it working. We changed the batteries, swapped the batteries around, clapped at it, shouted at it, shoved it, but alas it seems completely dead! What a disappointment. We played his music on the Boom Box while the rest of the presents were opened and then went downstairs to make pancakes while the boys played a Pokemon Battle.

Smallest had requested English Style pancakes, he meant Crepes. So we had them with Maple Syrup and lots of fruit. Then it was a mad dash to get Small to the Community Centre for him to take part in the Cubs KubKar racing. I stayed and had a shower and walked up a while later.

When I got there they were still waiting for their race. In fact I sat with them for 1.5 hours and they had been there 3/4 hour before me too. The hall was laid out with a huge long track with lanes. Lots of geeky men (scouty people) were checking the cars, calling out numbers, placing the cars in the correct order etc etc. We tried to work out which car would be fastest but it was very hard to tell as some of the cars were weighted underneath where you couldn't see. There were some interesting shapes too. Some shiny, some matt, some highly decorated, some elaboratally detailed and some very simple.

Eventually Small was called to race with five others. We had no idea how they decided which cars raced with which but there seemed some mathematical logic to it! Small's mainly came second or first in most races and in the final he came third overall. At one point there had to be a race with him and one other as they both finished at exactly the same time. It was all timed to the 100th second! Some of the participants had to go due to hockey practice so Smallest got to race someone else's car and receive their award on behalf of them.

Our favourite photo of the day where Smallest is putting his V's up at us. He is actually telling us he got second place! Ha!

We all, as parents, got to vote on the designs and Small also won third for his design. You can only choose one category to go forward in so he chose speed which means he gets to race again in the finals next Saturday. He received his trophy, badge and we clapped everyone else and came home.

We had lunch, Small did some homework and Smallest built one of his new lego kits. Huffle chopped some ice off the drive. It is all now starting to melt nicely now with temperatures of 5*. Tomorrow it could get to 11*. No more snow forecast for the rest of the week, nor rain, just cloud and sunshine. I'll take that!

I did a bit of crocheting while Huffle skyped Grandma and then we both went out again to clear some more ice. It is at times like these when you realise how big our drive is. It may not look big but there is enough ice to build a new Eskimo Estate.

Aunt Pear skyped and chatted and sang Happy Birthday. We all had dinner and the boys watched more Pokemon while I jigsawed and Huffle music'd!

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