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D's 5th Birthday

It's hard to believe my little man is 5 today. 5 yrs ago almost to the minute I write this, I was in St Thomas's hospital, London, and overwhelmed with emotion as I laid eyes on the most perfect little boy for the first time. The last 5 years have flown by, and what a big grown up boy he has become in that short period of time. He's reading, he's writing, he's extremely bright, funny, loving, and I have no idea how we managed to produce such a wonderful little person! I only hope the next one will be half as lovely!

We're having a little tea party for him after school today and it's very hard to keep him from wanting to open his presents until then! His party is on Saturday so he'll have the main celebration then.

In other news - G nearly totalled his car yesterday. I got a phone call from him as he'd gone to fetch D from school. "Err, can you come and get us, we've had a crash". After establishing everyone was OK, I drove to find them and found his car practically on it's side in a 4ft deep ditch full of snow. He'd hit some ice while driving up the road and plowed straight into the ditch. We transferred Dylan into my car and G was going to stay to call a tow-truck when miraculously one appeared. "Just driving around looking for people like you mate - 60 bucks OK?". Brilliant. It actually took them a long time to get him out of the ditch. The Durango is not the lightest of vehicles, I suspect as heavy as the tow truck itself. We didn't think it was going to make it, but finally they did manage to get it out of there. The guy said they really should call the police (stupid Canadian law whereby you have to call the police for every bump or scratch and they give you tickets for your accidents) but after a quick examination and realising there wasn't even a scratch on the Durango (lucky!) they were happy to have cash in hand and avoid the paperwork.