Tyler turned three this past Sunday. I can’t believe it either. More about three later, but I wanted to post his “birthday table”. I had been wanting to follow more traditional Waldorf traditions for Tyler, but got so lost planning the party, that I didn’t get around to doing all the preparations. My favorite part is that on your seasonal table, a little gnome shows up several days before the birthday “preparing” for the big day. The traditions very much focus on the birthday as a celebration of life. Next year I hope to really embrace more of those traditions. So then, what to do for him this year?

I really wanted Tyler to wake up on his birthday and see something special besides the hustle and bustle of party preparations. So I created this “birthday table” scene for him using his toys. Basically, it is many of his toys traveling to his party. Some are flying, some are driving, some are swimming, some are hiking and some are in a boat. The blue silk is water and also signifies that something is coming. There is a little candle that was lit to the right of the scene.

He really liked it when he woke up and studied it carefully and enjoyed looking at it further when we ate breakfast. I loved that we had this up all day and the morning after his birthday it was gone. I just love the idea of seasonal tables and how they represent the seasonal changes we will be experiencing and offering a hint of what festivals are up ahead.  I juse cleared the space where our sesasonal table will live for the coming year and I can’t wait to create it!

Here are a few more photos of the scene and Tyler seeing it for the first time!