Daniel is 6!!!

Oh my goodness - where has the time gone. Daniel is 6 already! This is starting to get scary - all my babies are growing up!

So Daniel got a bike for his birthday - there is a wee story to this bike, so here it is....

When Laura got her bike Daniel had a wee look around the shop and discovered a lovely bike with blue flames on it - he decided that was the one for him. But given that he already had a bike that had been handed down to him from a friend we decided he really didnt need another one. (Even if it did have blue flames on it!) So with his birthday looming we took to discussing what we might get him. As usual there was no specific request. Jase nows someone who has a paint shop so he stripped Daniels bike down and took it in to get it repainted - at least in blue and maybe with flames if we could do it.

So a week or so later the guys gets to looking at it and decides that it is going to be quite hard to sandblast down and repaint and cost more than he thought. We decided it was cost prohibitive, given that it was an old bike he would grow out of in a year or so.

So we are back to the drawing board - our biggest problem being that Daniel had seen Jase with his old bike so Jase had to let on what was going on - so we now have a little boy who is expecting his old bike all shiney and new looking.

Mum left him some money for his birthday when she was here in October so we decided to look at the original blue flame bike in the shop - and the cost wasnt too high when we split it with mums contribution.

So on his birthday morning he runs through to the lounge and we hear "theres no presents on the table" Now on thier birthdays before I go to bed the night before I always arrange thier presents on the table so they get to see them when they get up. But given that the bike is too big for the table and I didnt want Daniel to see it if he got up in the night I had put it around behind the door. So the disappointed little boy turns to go back to bed and sees a shiney bike behind the door - "my bike" is now the cry which quickly turns into "its a new bike, its my blue flame bike - look Laura I got a new bike"

One happy little boy!

Opening Auntie Ginas present - meccano - I think dad might like to help with this one!