any suggestions for Ethan's first anniversary

[marie Ethan's mum]

hi It will be Ethan's first anniversary on the 18 th of august ,  we will obviously visiting his garden but wanted something special to do with our other children to make them feel part of the day , my other children are aged 8, 6, 3 and 18 months , like the idea of releasing him balloon but also wanted to take the children somewhere special . we live in hampshire and have transport , can any one suggest any thing

[kimbobt84-BensMummy]

 I think the idea of spending the day altogether as a family in itself is a lovely thing to do on Ethans anniversary. The zoo that Cheryl suggested seems a nice idea-really 'fitting'. We toyed with the idea of visiting a zoo and sponsering an animal in Ben's name (a giraffe which we assosiate with Ben).
We did the usual letting balloons and glo lanterns off, special flowers for his garden etc. I also made him a personalised card on moonpig.

[angelmum]

The Zoo sounds great 






Donna 

[marie Ethan's mum]

hi girls
 just wanted to say we have decided on the Zoo , It's not far for us and just seems perfect ( thank you Cheryl for suggestion) 
going to take his balloons tied to erin's buggy all day them release them just before we leave ,So Ethan will be a big part of the day , and we are also were yellow to raise awareness of MRSA but will give you details in another post..... kids really excited looking forward to it,
I'm looking forward to the zoo just not the day , It's creeping up so quick now

sorry not coping ,(crying again) how can it be a year already nearly when it still hurts like this .

any way better go 


thank you again

[kimbobt84-BensMummy]

 Your idea with the ballons sounds lovely. I'm sure Ethan will be there with you and tell Ben all about the giraffes!! x

[marie Ethan's mum]

right girls so picture of us waving at giraffes for the boys and elephants for livvy any other requests we don't mind all the babies will be with us in our hearts that day anyway 

thankyou again for getting me through this girls

[kimbobt84-BensMummy]

Now Cheryl that's just showing off with the elephants now 

[marie Ethan's mum]

kim were does cheryl find these thing lol I can bearly manage to type a post and add a hug let alone all this other stuff and

girls by the way I think livvy and ben and a few of the other babes will be joining us at the zoo any way so they will see for themselves , promise not to let the keepers mistake Chrissy (ethan's daddy) for a large monkey and let them keep him lol

seriously thanks for being my life line at the moment ,  they say it's the kindness of strangers that suprises you most and you girls are amazing.

[marie Ethan's mum]

His favorite ted was a giraffe called frank (after the old man that gave it to him ) and he was the first baby at our hospital to use the giraffe incubator  but I called himmy cheeky monkey so you got it spot on really with either , when he used to stress out when I wasn't with him at the hospital the nurses used to say they gave my cheeky monkey his giraffe care (meaning stroking his head with frank the giraffe) it was his own version of kanagoo care . .

I hadn't thought of that in a while and remebering just made me smile so thanks

[nathansmummy]

Marie,

Your plans for Ethans anniversary sound perfect hun, I hope yourself and your family have a quality day together remembering your special little boy/brother. Take it easy on his anniversary I have recently got throught Nathans anniversary and it was totally different than what i expected it to be. I hope you and your family have a lovely day of rememberance and reflection.