The Buckingham Blog

Today was Krystal's 3rd birthday.  She was up again in the night last night so didn't get up until 8:10am.  She was so excited to see this pile of presents waiting for her. 

I think her face says it all in this photo when she opened her pink iPod.  She might only be turning 3, but she really wasn't needing anything, Kory has one and they both love music.  Getting one of the old style ones like his but in pink wasn't the easiest thing! 

We got all ready and headed to the cinema for 10am (yawn) to see a film about mermaids.  The write up made it sound like a rewrite of "The Little Mermaid" but it wasn't what we expected at all.  It was japanese cartoon.  They enjoyed it though, and I got into it as it went on!

We then headed to Pizza Hut for lunch.  We met a couple of the kids friends there which they loved and the food went down well too! 

We came home for a while after that, to make phonecalls to people who'd been trying to get us all morning and to chill for a bit.  Krystal was a bit huffy and tired, so we scrapped any plans we had for the afternoon and decided just to head to Johnstone Gardens for a walk and then to a playpark. 

Though this ended in disaster when Kory was on one of the wobbly things (you know like a horse on a big coiled spring) and made it go so fast it came back and smacked him in the eye!  

We came home, fed the troops (again!) and sang Happy Birthday and blew out the candles.   The cake was very yummy even if I do say so myself!

When we went upstairs to get ready for bed, Krystal wanted to try on one of her presents from Nana.  She got it last year in China and kept for her birthday.  I think it was meant to be for dressing up, but I love it!  Only not sure when I'd ever put it on her.  Only time I can think is on a holiday in the evening for eating out.  It's so pretty.  She was so funny bowing in it too. 

I think a good day was had by her, she's come so far from this...

Happy Birthday Princess Krystal

Julie.xx