9 Years Old

Alexis came home from school and read two more mangas while waiting for everyone to get home for his party night, especially opening all of his presents.

To eat, he asked for jacket potatoes, his favourite and I made a chocolate brownie cake

He had lots of great presents, from dinosaurs to construction games, a pop-up goal, books, a vintage bus and a remote-controlled car

It took ages to unscrew the car from its box (yes, Alain had to go in the basement and find a screwdriver), Alexis, MK and even Gabrielle waited patiently and guess what? Once out of the box it needed charging for 4 hours..poor Alexis

So Alexis played in the garden with his new goal. I am going to move the goal later today to the big garden, as in the gravel courtyard it's just not going to work, far too noisy.

Les Niniches d'Alexis

A Parcel arrived from Brittany yesterday for birthday boy Alexis who's nine today. He doesn't know about the Niniches yet, nor his presents from his Papy and Mamie, but he obviously knew about some of his other presents, as this morning he said that he'd really like to have one present before school, so we gave him a new watch (this boy is a time control freak). He was happy enough but said he'd like one of his manga's, and I knew exactly where to find them, right under our bed...he's manga mad too.

Back to the Niniches, these lollies are so good, especially the caramel beurre ones, my favourite, lucky the tin's sealed (hard to resist), and there are for Alexis. He'll share them as the girls will insist, bribe him, negotiate, whatever it takes to have a niniche.