Birthday Celebrations

During the week Mr Messy turned the grand OLD age of 50!!! OMG my old man really is OLD!!! With him working away most of the week, me and Little Prince being jet lagged and the upheaval Panel caused we didn't get chance to celebrate. But we made up for that this weekend :-) We went to the same restaurant that we went to for my birthday, with the same group of friends and had a great time again :-) I was a bit more organised than Mr Messy was and got him some helium balloons (saying either "50" or "Birthday Boy" hehe) and got him a cake. I thought about the 'Busty Boobs' cake but settled on a plain white one with 'Happy Birthday' on it lol. It was lovely to see all our friends together again, and they were joking that next time we get together to celebrate it will be when our new little one comes home :-) Its so nice that all our friends are so excited and happy for us too :-)

Little Prince was a total pain the whole meal!! He had wanted to sit next to his girlfriend's big sister (does he prefer the older woman?!), but she felt ill and wanted to sit with her mummy and daddy. He wasn't sat next to me and took full advantage of that!! LMS was sat opposite him and looked like she was going to have a nervous breakdown from before the starters even arrived!! He had been so looking forward to having ribs (which he adores) and talked about it all the way there in the car. He ordered ribs himself from the waiter and was very happy about this, until the main courses arrived and Girlfriend had sausages!! That wasn't fair, he wanted sausages!! When we pointed out that he loved ribs, he claimed to hate them and we were all mean for not telling him that he could have had sausages!! We've told him next time we go there we will let Girlfriend order first and then he can decide what he wants!!! For most of the meal he sat messing about and not touching his food, but just as everyone else was finishing he decided to eat most of his ribs!! Finally!! There was more trouble to come!!! The waiter brought out the cake, with sparklers in and we all sang to Mr Messy!! When he was cutting the cake into pieces Little Prince kept telling Daddy that he wanted the ribbon from round the cake. Trouble is Mr Messy didn't hear him and gave the ribbon to Girlfriend!!!! That was the last straw for Little Prince, he refused point blank to eat any cake (little boy REFUSING cake!! That's grounds for a visit to A&E!!!) and just sat whinging about the ribbon and trying to grab it from Girlfriend. Then Mad Cat Lady's Hubby made him and Girlfriend paper airplanes out of the menus!! Which Little Prince used as a missile to attack the surrounding tables!! Not a good idea really!!! Luckily we had all finished by then so we could get out of there before we were thrown out!!!

Outside we got Mad Cat Lady to take a family photograph of the five of us, and of the three she took there is one where everyone is looking in the right direction, not pulling faces and everyone has their eyes open!! We need this picture for our Ethiopia dossier, and LMS isn't home that often to try again, so I was thrilled we got a usable photo :-) Little Prince continued to be a pain most of the way home, perhaps it was all too much excitement and too much pressure to be good?! When we went for petrol on the journey home, he was asking for sweets!! He got told NO as he wasn't stuffing himself full of sugar after not eating much dinner and just before bedtime!! Once home he played for a few minutes before tidying up (with 'encouragement' from his big sisters) before insisting that LMS take him to bed. He has been telling her all day that he is going to be sad and cry tomorrow, and that she shouldn't go back to university! Oh dear! Tomorrow is going to be a hard day!