We’re counting down to Sophie’s 5th Birthday Party at home on Saturday! We’re in full party mode, making decorations, moving furniture around to make room for all the guests, including the fabulous Harry the Clown, baking, packing up goodie bags, wrapping goodies for pass the parcel, stuffing the pinata. This week is all about our…
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Alvin!!!!! Movie Birthday Party for Charlotte
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 was in the house Saturday night for Charlotte’s 7th Birthday celebrations! The countdown for the movie party started days before. Fairy lights twinkled away the mid-winter gloom and balloons were strung up north, south, east and west. Goodie bags stocked, balloons stuffed with lollies and attached to elastic bands for…
Sophie’s 4th Birthday Party – Fun at the stables
Sunday morning we woke to overcast weather and the threat of rain in the distant hills, but thankfully it held off for Sophie’s 4th Birthday Party in the afternoon. She turns four on Boxing Day, but we decided to throw the party a little earlier this year and it was a lovely, relaxed celebration. Our…
Star Wars Extravaganza!
Six year old Birthday parties at home are not for the faint hearted. We had 12 children to entertain (including our own) and with only two parents staying (the rest wisely making a ‘drop and run’) we had our hands full! Preparations started a couple of days before, with decorations to put up, loot bags…
Driving into the sunset
New Year’s Eve itself was a quiet one for us, but we did enjoy a little countdown and fireworks with the girls. Our dear neighbour was home alone, so we joined her (or at least I did for a few chick flicks – Sound of Music and Runaway Bride!). Dan joined us at midnight and…
Happy Birthday Sophie!
Our dear Sophie turned 3 on Boxing Day and her first words on waking were, ‘I’m three, I’m three, I’m really three!’. It seems only yesterday when she made her joyous arrival and she’s been our happy ray of sunshine ever since. Ever the charmer, the peace maker and the joker. She only stops talking…
Counting down… party season!
The Christmas tree is up (with our usual eclectic collection of decorations, added to each year!), the advent calendar doors are being greeted with great excitement every morning (and they’re not even chocolate ones – what mean parents!), parcels have been arriving and swiftly hidden from prying eyes and we’re all looking forward to the…
Charli turns five!
Wow! It’s a biggie! Five year’s old and Charli had an awesome Birthday. She woke before Sophie and waited patiently for her little sister to wake before opening her presents. Sophie loves unwrapping things and Charli was so kind in giving her sister some of her cards and presents to open. We’d decorated the house…
Sophie’s 2nd Birthday: Boxing Day 2007!
Sophie was SO excited that she was finally turning two! She had been waiting for weeks to eat cake and blow out candles. After unwrapping her pressies (in record time!) she kept asking, ‘Sausie rolls ready now?’ – she LOVES sausage rolls and was very keen to have them for her Birthday! The children enjoyed…
Social Butterfly
It’s a sad state of affairs when your daughter gets more invitations to social engagements than you do! This past fortnight Charlotte’s attended two five-year old’s Birthday parties and at the local playground has had friends running up to her that we don’t even know! She’s really becoming an independent person in her own right…
Charlotte’s Fourth Birthday Party
Charlotte wondered into our bedroom around 2am this morning holding a helium balloon in her hand. I was feeling thick with cold and struggling to sleep and couldn’t quite believe my eyes. I told her it wasn’t morning and to be a good girl and go back to bed. An hour later Simba wakes us…
Thick with Cold
We’re all coughing and spluttering here. Poor little Sophie has been hit worse and is desperate for sleep, but keeps waking up with a streaming nose and hacking cough. I took her to the doctors on Thursday, mentioning we were flying to the UK a week on Monday, but the doctor wasn’t very sympathetic, ‘There’s…
Charli Loves Transport!
Now Charlotte’s four she’s not shy to speak her mind and it’s gorgeous to see her going up to people and ask a question (though sadly she isn’t always understood, so we have to stand by her side and translate – which clearly frustrates her, as she normally takes a few deep inhalations when this…
Getting Ready to Party!
We’re counting down to Charlotte’s 4th Birthday party and over the weekend we started creating some ‘enclosures’ for our Zoo Party (but they might come in handy to contain the multitude of guests Charlotte is inviting!). Fortunately we had a few large boxes left over from our house move last year so we’re going crazy…