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Every year, end of March-beginning of April, we celebrating a lot of birthday and anniversary. First of all, the 26th of March, there is our wedding anniversary. This year, we celebrated a little bit late because of unavailable baby-sitter. We went to Sweet Olive, our favourite French gastro-pub where Marc ate some D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S venison and I ate some S-U-C-C-U-L-E-N-T scalops. It's a shame you can't take picture of taste!
Then it was of course Arthur's birthday, but the poor little one got sick on that day. We invited Christelle and Richard to have a crepe party, but he didn't want any and went to bed without eating.



But we did party.
There was Olwen's birthday party, Arthur's friend:



Then Elliot's birthday party, but we don't introduce him any more:



And at last, Arthur's birthday party which was a joined party with three friends who are also born in April, Ben, Ethan and Emily. There was an inflated castle, some bouncing toys...:



It was as every year a month pretty busy, but the birthday party are more and more interesting each year.

First of all, the day of his birthday, Arthur woke up sick. He was in bad mood and he didn't want us to sing "happy birthday", but when he went down stairs to have his breakfast, he discovered in the conservatory his present from his parents: a garage with cars.
He was really happy, and we had to have breakfast near it, and changing his nappy and get dressed in the conservatort!.
Fortunately, he didn't mind leaving to Fiona's.
Fiona gave him a board with soft paper where there is a lot of different little piece to change the background. The theme is the train station with a nice train.
In the evening, when we came back, Christelle and Richard were waiting for us with a big packet. They offered him a bear made by themselves in the bear factory. His name is Barney, but Arthur being really traditional calls him Teddy.
They stayed for diner, Marc made some home made lasagna. We spent more time on the phone than with our guests, but thank you everyone to have called for Arthur who wasn't in good mood to talk on the phone except for his godfather Paul.
The next day, he received a parcel from Maryse, Aurelie's mum, a really nice book in French "Arthur, tidy your room". The drawings and the text are really nice.
Saturday, yesterday, we celebrated his birthday with others friends. Yes, 2 years old, 2 birthday parties!!!! There were Grace and Olivia who are his friends from Fiona's, Sophie and Isabelle and Elliot. For the adults, there were the parents and Christelle and Richard.
He got a lot of present: some puzzle of Thomas, the tank engine and Nemo from Olivia, a book from Grace (Monkey and me), a book and some Winnie the pooh chocolate from Elliot, some letter-magnet from Sophie and Isabel
Arthur blow again really well his candles, but this time Marc missed the video, so no proof. What was funny is that he managed to blow one candle and took it to light it up again with the other one. He did that two or three time, until I helped him to blow the two candles at the same time.
Today, we woke up with 10 centimetre of snow. Arthur received an other present from the neighbour: a book "Old MacDonald had a farm", I had to sing it twice!!
In the other news, Arthur being sick all week, he started to suck his thumb again. Good or not good, I don't know, but he needs it obviously. He is really grumpy and has tantrums these days, so I hope it will help him to calm down.
To finish with birthday and anniversaries, Marc and I went to a gastro-pub for our wedding anniversary on Thursday. It was delicious.

First of all, we began the week with a good and a bad news. We won’t go to Nantes to see my family because of a lack of organization and money, but our friends HK and Kaia will visit us from Paris. Good reason to stay in England.

We said “I do” at Strasbourg's town hall in front of all our family and friends.
A fairy-like day for the two of us
For those who read us and were not there for various reasons, let me tell you this weekend which will remain in our memory, hopefully as long as possible (fortunately the pictures are there!)