Miles' Birthday

So back to the old guilt feelings again!

This time about Miles' birthday - im feeling so bad that he doesn't have his grandparents and aunts and uncles adn cousins around him. 
Now to be fair he has never once asked for any of these people around him for his Birthday, all he has asked for is:

1. a trampolin
2. a dinosaur cake
3. a trip to the zoo
4. to see his friends and have a party

So we have planned - on his actual birthday, (sunday) to have a little tea party at home, with dinosaur cake of course! the 4 of us.
all his favourtie foods, which includes watermelon and fairy bread and ummmm....yep thats about it!
Then heading to the Walkabout wild life park on the Central Coast.

Then later that week I am taking him to the Zoo - Taronga, with a friend and her 2 little ones.. one is Miles'little friend.
Then on the weekend he is having a birthday party - a joint one with 5 friends and their little ones, all of who are turning 4 around the same time...
He will also have a cake that i make him for Playgroup and have a little celebration there as well as Pre-school.

We are getting him a trampoline and he has stacks of pressies from our family in the UK.

So i guess im just feeling guilty that he wont have our families there to spoil him - i mean he is having quite  a lot of things, a party and 2 zoo trips and this and that - its just that, i feel bad that he cant have his grandparents come over and spoil him as only grandparents can.

But then on the other hand, when they come over to visit they bring so many toys and spend so much time with them and spoil them so much, its just in a short concentrated timeframe. 
I guess if grandparents were around all the time they wouldn't lavish so much attention on thier Grandkids as my kids get lavished on them as thier grandparents only see them once a year (each set comes out every 2 years, but alternate years - so works out they get one set every year). 
So they do see them, and they get so spoilt, its just that they aren't here for the big things like Xmas and Birthday, and  ifeel really bad about that.
But i guess its all the kids know and Miles has never even menitoned them - so perhaps its just me... and im stressing myself and feeling bad for nothing.

i don't know.. anyway - in other news!

Some pics from our weekend trip to the beach.

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