Bogdan's birthday

Yesterday Bogdan turned NINE. We started off with our together school time. Then he opened the box from our North Carolina relatives. (Thank you!) Bogdan got to play for the rest of the morning, while the others did school.

Thursdays are his biggest day for other classes, so he left with Will for his music lessons. (The last lessons before another quarantine went into effect at 2:00.) Birthday preparations continued here at home.

Then, after Will transferred Bogdan to art school, I went there with cupcakes for their tea break.

Dancing :-)

After art we hurried home for the big event: cooking dinner over a fire! Bogdan and his friends have been desperately wanting to build fires for the past month or so. I finally suggested that we do it for his birthday, so anticipation had been building for a long time. I think it was a real success, too. Everyone was so happy! The oldest of our neighbour children had gone on Asya's birthday excursion, which was a big deal, and she kept repeating that she didn't know whose birthday was more fun, Asya's or Bogdan's. A backyard fire may have outranked Jump Park and MacDonald's. The boys built the fire, Will grilled the meat, and then everyone cooked sweet dough for dessert. Towards the end our neighbours had some guests arrive, so the number of children grew almost exponentially, and it was very happy chaos while they finished off every last crumb.