Daddy's Birthday.

Today was Grant's birthday! He is almost, but not quite yet 40! As you will probably have realised Grant does not appear very often on this blog and that is because he very often has to miss out on things because of his disability. Sometimes it is due to accessibility, there are many things you take for granted until you are presented with a wheelchair. Sometimes it's due to pain. Sometimes it's due to having to work odd hours to keep up when physical limitations are a problem. But for whatever reason he often misses out on events/activities that other fathers would take for granted. As a result there are not that many pictures of him (although probably more than there are of me seeing as I am always taking them!!). So just so that we can say he is on the blog, here are some shots taken over the last few years.

I had great plans to take a picnic to a flat spot I spied in Tokai forest this afternoon but it didn't quite work out that way. With carting children around to swimming lessons and having do to a desperate grocery shop!! we didn't get that far, but we did have some visitors (mostly grandparents) pop in for cake and coffee and lots of phone calls.



We had Grants favourite - pizza - for supper and lots of cake and other yummy things for dessert (he actually had his dessert before the pizza but hey, when it's your birthday you can do that!!) Grant spoilt himself this birthday and bought himself an MP3 player. It seems walkman and discman are a thing of the past...nowhere to be found. Grant recently bought a exercise bike that he has rigged up to take most of his weight on his arms and is very diligent about using it. However he needs to have music, loud music, while he is exercising!! So to spare the rest of us from blaring 60's music an MP3 it was going to have to be.



We may still surprise him with a belated gift or 2...


Hopefully we'll still get to do the family picnic and hopefully it will a place that we can go to more often, but come to think of it we're still trying to get to go on our anniversary dinner!!!


Well, even though it was a pretty ordinary kind of day, we want to say:
and Debbie!