Its my party and I'll be as angry as I want to...

OK, so nobody was actually angry. But Mathias' birthday party had an Angry Birds theme (of course). It had AB invitations, balloons, games, game prizes, pinata, and - of course - an Angry Birds cake! 

The party was held at the Tiger Activity Center at the local school. There was plenty of room for burning off energy and even a climbing wall. 

Mathias invited ten of his closest friends for two and a half hours of chaos. Everyone had fun and afterwards most of us were tired. 

Seven

We'll file this under things that are just mind boggling and hard to believe... but Mathias turned seven today!  Wow!  Where did those 2,557 days go?!

For falling on a weekday, he had a terrific birthday.  The day opened with being greeted by Farmor and Farfar over the phone. Although he becomes very shy with a phone in his hand so the conversation didn't go very far.

When he had his breakfast his brother gave him his presents - an Angry Birds waste basket for his desk and a matching pillow for his bed. If you didn't already know it; Angry Birds is a huge hit with the Kindergarten set and the merchandising is getting out of control...

In the afternoon Ericka and Johan visited Mathias' Kindergarten class and had cup cakes. Mathias was quite proud to introduce his brother to his classmates.
We had requested-by-the-birthday-boy pizza for dinner and he opened the rest of his presents. I think Johan felt a tinge of jealousy but he handled it well. It helped that Mathias let him help open packages.
Thanks to all who remembered him on his big day!

Look - no gap!

After several weeks of wiggling, the loose tooth was finally ready to come out.  So tonight we put one end of a string around the tooth. The other string was attached to, what else, a toy car. Mathias set the car on the floor, gave it a push, and out came the tooth!
We were all amazed at how small it was. With the new tooth already well on its way there is really no gap between the remaining teeth (other than that one is set back a little).
The tooth fairy left him four dollar coins.

More skiing

Johan took a couple of skiing lessons. In spite of transportation to and from the slope being taken care of for him, and the two hour class being divided by a hot chocolate break, he's not all that amused by it. 

Mathias on the other hand has found his niche. He's talking about joining the ski team next season where he would get to practice actual downhill skiing with with actual gates, timing all that comes with that.  With the local ski season is on its last leg, I'm sure he's in for a long dull summer...