A birthday party!

I am exhausted.

There..i've said it, so forgive me if at some points in this post i become incoherent...my brain just isn't functioning as it should be tonight.

Okie-dokie...let's see... today was Joshua's official birthday party..lucky devil, he has had 3 cakes so far for his brithday and i'm pretty definitely sure that now he thinks birthdays last for a week...

and as always, a party at the Chiew family house means over-eating, over-indulgence and sheer gluttony...and my day began really well in accordance with this theme...for breakfast i had pancakes with ice-cream and maple syrup...and then snacked on some prawn crackers made by my aunt... Yummie...then it was the barbeque...a whole smorgasbord of food was prepared...there was noodles, fried rice, frankfurters, squids, prawns, mushrooms, more noodles, salads, satay (!!), chicken etc... it was amazing...!! and as usual, there's still heaps of left-overs.

the day went pretty well, i must say...yours truly was Chief Decorator-in-Operation and at the rick of sounding smug and self-praising...i did a GREAT job with the decor..hahahaha..nothing too fanciful...just streamers and balloons...hahahaha..but coming from me, that's an amazing feat in itself.



anyways, the day wore on and joshua became hyper..and he's still hyper. i'm now in my room, half-dead from exhaustion and he's still downstairs playing with his toys. and during the party, he was going mad with Milton and Melvin and in short, everyone. the irony of it is that he got heaps of presents and toys...there was this Roboraptor toy, which is a dinosaur that responds to sound and touch which costs over AUD100, and i'm pretty sure all his other presents were quite expensive. but after playing with them for a few minutes he would forget about it. and he's contented with punching pillows with melvin...*sigh*...

Roboraptor: $150
Micellanous toys: $200
Helium Balloons: $40
Kung-fu pillow stunts: Priceless.


ah well..that's life for a 5-year-old.


The birthday cake, the excited boy...


And he huffs and he puffs and he blows the candles out...


See his sword? courtesy of Melvin..complete with a king-ly suit.

ooh! there's some really classic pictures i desperately NEED to post up!! June (my cousin) was carrying Benjamin and holding a beer bottle in one hand...and ben actually started reaching out for it and began sucking on the bottle!! how amazing is that???


Target spotted: Eh, what's that ar??


Zooming in on the kill...target locked down.


Aaaahhh....sheer ecstasy...


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anyways..like i said..i'm dead-tired..i'm going to sleep now...