Hi Mum,
Today is my first birthday, wow! I was a bit worried over the last few days smaug has been always at work and we have hardly seen him at all after the Stampede opening, so I thought that no one was going to remember about my birthday. But this morning he gently waked me very early before going out and wished me happy birthday, I was so happy and when I woke up again (yes, I went back to sleep 
) all the toys here sang happy birthday for me 
Sammino said that we should make the date a bit special, so first we had a hearty breakfast with chocolate cookies 
We dipped the cookies in milk and chocolate while Mr Bananas and Purple Haze had some proper English tea.
After that we spent the morning playing cards…salzburger spielkarten not really something I expected to find in western Canada 
We played Watten, actually Blind-Watten and sammino explained us the rules….that took a while
You usually play in pairs, so I teamed up with Purple Haze against Mr Bananas and Sully Monster, but as we were all novices we got the help of an “experienced player” each. My help is not actually a fan of daylight, so I had to keep nudging him to prevent him from falling asleep 
I think that in the end Purple Haze and myself won the game or so sammino told us. Later, after a bit of rest, sammino showed us how to make a paper frog, well not just a paper frog, but a paper jumping frog 
We all got quickly into it and started preparing our own frogs, and after a bit we were all ready to line up the frogs for a race.
The race “track” was on the table with some, hmmm, artificial obstacles...
...but after a few laps all the frogs ended up jumping down the table so we called the race off and just spent the rest of the day chatting and relaxing as usual
Later sammino taught to me how to say honey in Italian: it’s “miele”. And when smaug came back in the evening he showed me your happy birthday message, I was so happy, thanks mum !!
