I don't know what to say, honestly, other than that you really shouldn't have. The book looks great, and I know we shall all enjoy it. Russell reads Darwin a Dr Seuss book every single night (actually, I say that but tonight was the first time it was something different as I happened to get Where The Wild Things Are) but since starting the new bedtime routine he has a story each night and so Dr Seuss gets read each night, so that was the most wonderful of gifts. Since we started the new bedtime routine, and with some advice and help from someone on here in regards to baby sleep, Darwin went from waking up 5-6 but sometimes 8 times a night, needing a breast feed to settle each night, to sleeping all the way through the night for 11 hours a night. It was like a miracle. The first night Russell say with him, reading a story, telling him he loved him, and he whinged a bit but after 15 minutes went to sleep, woke up 6:30 the next day. Since then we read him a story, he's asleep by about 7:30 and we wake him up at 6:30 the next morning. It's been 3 weeks now, and I still wake up confused.
We are not doing anything for his birthday, really. I really, really wanted to have a little party/gathering, because who wouldn't on their baby's first birthday? It feels so special to us. But I realised that we don't really know anyone who would likely want to come, and rather no party than a sad and lonely one. My mum is coming over on his actual birthday, but that's all. I'm still going to make a cake with an Ictonsuts theme, because at least we'll then gave a cake picture, and I bought a pack of balloons and a banner, but that's all. If my mum hadn't said she'd come k we I was going to take him to W Midlands safari park, but her partner could book one day off and they chose to use it in visiting for his birthday.
All that said you know you have a standing invitation to always come o er, so...
Otherwise we'll definitely be at the cottage. I've just made the most perfect roasted chickpeas so we'll have to make some of those there also