yesterday i might expand on, tomorrow! but we had the babs staying overnight. all the children had a whale of a time together, mostly skating up and down the hallway wildly and being a shipping menace. a somewhat late bedtime… in fact, BB had 2 bedtimes… we grownups chatted, made sausage rolls, decorated the cake, made buns for brownies etc etc and finally went to bed!
kids all up early and rushed to skate again 
as not the most restful of starts 
and then we got up in a lazy way, and then realised what work was left to do and got our skates on!! sarnies made and pizza cooked, and then we gave SB her presents. she was very happy. i did get her spore though, as i want to have a look at it – is that very bad???
so we were out to an activity centre not that local, and met up with lots of friends – thanks all – who all helped to make the day fabulous. SB had a lovely time and gave it 10/10 . She spent a particularly long time with Maddy right up at the top, so she isn’t in as many photos as all the kids who seemed to be having a marvellous time playing tag across all the equipment. BB took A LOT longer to settle in. But i got to chat to Gina, Katy and Merry in the littlies play area, which was nice as otherwise i might have felt grumpy about being trapped there. eventually Josie and BB remembered they were friends and had fun so i didn’t get to chat to all my friends, but was v happy that you were all there, and i will see you all at various points!
the party food was consumed, we had non-autonomous party poppering, to allow those rather hating bangs to escape the room first, and we had to have a hooter free few minutes too after a while… Chris had done a fab job with the cake, and it got eaten very nicely back at merry’s. so all in all lovely.
Back to merry’s for a quick natter. would have stayed longer if BB hadn’t been so flaky – she fell asleep pretty instantly in the car, followed by SB than me! SB off to brownies then judo – with cakes to share the birthday experience. Jax, Big and Small here, and all kids currently playing sylvanians happily. we will open presents tomorrow, so thanks everyone and will thank better once open!
Had a fab day – thank you to SB for sharing her birthday with us.
glad you all had a lovely time.
no idea about how good or bad Spore is, Aprilia was playing it yesterday at Nelly’s house and aparently she decided not to be a carnival because then you have to eat your friends. I think she meant a carnivore but tehn who knows?