Big day for the big boy - Vol. 1

Yesterday morning Jakob seemed to have realised that the day would be something special as we all were very excited. The final preparations for the family-leg of the birthday celebrations kicked off right after breakfast with purchasing the last necessary ingredients for the meals and decorating the the flat. Our junior cut his morning sleep short and also the lunchtime nap was not too long. When Anna and Lini and lateron the grandparents from Oberwart arrived it was all over with being tired and Jakob enjoyed being in the very focus of the day. He very much liked that fact and had all fun one can immagine.

Once aunts Ines, godfather Stefan, Viki and Sandra also joined us in our cool living room (thanks to our investment into an aircondition) it was time for the presents - and there were plenty of them. Toys, clothes, a tri-cycle, shoes and plates were all wrapped nicely whereas Jakob's main focus was on the frog-on-the-stick which amused and interested him most: the stick weas great to chew on, it fit perfectly to his Charlie-Chaplin-kind-of walk and the frog made funny noises when moved properly. After the presents it was time for the sugar-shock on the roof terrace from the birthday cake: a sacher cake prepared by grandma Heidi with marzipan applications on top - an elephant and a ball. Right after having blown out the candle our sunshine he grabbed the marzipan ball and enjoyed it.

Once energy was re-loaded with the cake, Markus showed the movie he made about the first year of/with Jakob and once that was over it was time for dinner already. Both Anna and Jakob did not very much like their usual supper probably as they knew that there is a barbecue waiting which they also can get hold of. Hence both of them ate the meat, potatoes and other vegetables instead. When bedtime arrived Jakob was still so excited that it took a while to fall asleep, but that was well understood.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus