Happy Birthday, Alexey

Wednesday, September 16 is Alexey’s birthday! He turns one today.

Our plans for today are to go downtown and choose a nice toy or two with him as gifts, then to get birthday cupcakes for each of us to celebrate with. We will post a picture or two later today of Alexey eating the cupcake. They promise to be entertaining.

In some countries, including another one whose national colours are blue and gold (Sweden, where Uncle Mats and cousin Emma were born), the practice is to fly the national flag on birthdays as well as on national holidays. We don’t know if it’s traditional in Kazkahstan, but we’re doing it anyway, at least here on the blog.

Flag picture Flickr/Creative Commons