Happy Birthday Felix (65/365b)

kept felix home from kindergarten this morning, and just had fun with my five year old. he's so sweet, picking raspberries in the garden, helping me around the house, drawing, reading and singing. and in the afternoon i did have to take theodore and henry to swim class, and brian got some one-on-one time with the little man.

snack time between swimming and singing

in the span of the 10 minutes it takes to walk from andreas hofer platz to hauptplatz, the wind picked up, knocked over some street signs, and entirely cleared the busiest street in graz by pelting sheets of rain at it. i've never seen a storm come in so fast. the middle of the afternoon in the summer was cold, dark and empty.

dark as dusk.

so felix's birthday picnic was moved to the brunnenhof. 

theodore spent hours and hours making felix a present - 10 painted corks he drilled holes into, to make a pet snake on a cord to pull around after felix. he was so excited to see felix's reaction he nearly unwrapped the present himself.

centa was already at the hof, she had gotten there just before the deluge. manuela got there a bit later.

we had cake and presents and sang.

i made the 5 candle out of beeswax.
centa got felix some roses.
there was no light for photos without flash

family

one big hit was that each kid got a fan to paint... that had to be done right away.

concentration

colors

right in the church next door was where the finnish choir was singing their concert, and we stayed for that. only centa and i stayed until the very end. and then i stayed until the finnish boys were done having their dinner and had sung a few fun spontaneous acapella songs. that was super nice. brian came to pick us up, bringing a jacket for me. i can't believe we still need a jacket so close to midsummer's eve.