Pretty quiet, same old same old around here. We do have an important weekend ahead with a trip to see my family. A certain special Mum will be having a special birthday & we are all getting together to celebrate. However this week has been slow, as was last week-end. I seem to keep losing bloggy readers if I don't post regularly so I decided to look back into the photo archives. Well, i discovered that today (27th Jan) is Norman Bear's birthday. Let me explain... When the children were small they used to plan & play 'parties' for their teddy bears or other cuddlies. They usually announced it was the birthday of a beloved ted whenever there wasn't much else going on. Well in 2007 Smurf decided it was the 3rd birthday of Norbert Norman Bear, an ugly blue Ted who'd been won in a raffle years before. So... Here are a few pics of january 27th 2007, when everyone got involved in this bear's birthday...
The party tea... complete with home-made Birthday cake & donuts, honey on bread, sausages, fries & jam rolls... (no points for healthy eating... all foods chosen for their 'bear' appeal!)
The Paddington Bear I'm holding below was my ted from when I was little. He now belongs to Tiger-girl.
Smurf had organised some party games... musical statues where the bears did the dancing (of course)...
Pass the parcel...
Sleeping lions ..
Then Norman had a card (painted by Nanny in Wales), a hand-puppet (made by Tiger-girl) & a new scarf (knitted by Smurf with Mum's help)...
Tiger-girl had baked a yummy chocolate cake...
One of the most exciting things (as I remember) was the Goody bag for each guest...given out by Smurf when all the guests were lined up waiting...
I've enjoyed looking back at this family time we had together. In the weeks after I made Smurf a pop-up book about this party we had for his Bear. As I finish this post, Smurf has got out the book & is looking through it again :)
Enjoyed the teddies' party - felt like i was there! Lovely to see old Paddington again, brought back happy memories. xxx
Posted by: maz | January 28, 2009 at 07:16 PM