Holiday Holiday Holiday

April has been like that. Two weeks off, then Easter long weekend and next weekend the Royal Wedding and May Bank Holiday, so all in all, Mae will have been in school for a grand total of eight days (yes, Eight) this month.

BUT! If it means we have a great birthday and a grand weekend with the Mitras, then that's fine. These kids get along so well, and just do their own thing for their visit that we dread the day when they might not have anything in common!! But it was lovely, so much so that this is the last day and the only time I thought of gettting a photo of them. See you in August!!



By the way, Mae has not got a squint- this is her default goofy look, although I did warn her if she kept doing it, it might get stuck that way!! I am turning into my mother.

Holy Cow it's a birthday!

Well, she said it was her best birthday yet, and no way am I ever having a big party again! I didn't even have to make a cake, as she wanted a birthday Pizza!! And, it was 6 hours long. Amazing, eh? Mae and her two best friends, it was great. They are nuts and have a great time together.

They got to open their party bags right away as they had matching pyjamas. Gorgeous!!

Even the games were quiet! Jelly eating contest and a memory game.

It was a close run.

But Lizzie went the extra mile and gulped down her Jello in record time.

Mae blew out candles on her pizza. The guy who delivered it was surrounded when he arrived, he was out of there like a shot. Nothing like girls seeing how much power they have.

Then it was movie time and you would think they had never eaten in their lives. I really should have given them each their own bowl of popcorn, competetive eating is never a good thing...(except for Jello). After this it was mini sausages, jam tarts, Pringles, grapes, etc etc!!

Mae started to lose it very slightly about 15 minutes before the others went home, so I cracked out the glowing jewellry and sorted it. What a brilliant day!

Headgear

Well, it's the school holidays and the sun has decided to come out! Of course it is meant to rain again next week but that's why we were out all day yesterday and are now sunburnt. Get it while you can. It's been a nice week so far though and Geoff had Friday off so he took Mae to the local farm park where she has had her first go on the quadbikes!! Yikes! But apparently they can make them go slow and Mae did quite well up until she ran over the guy running it (he must be used to that I am sure!). I am glad I wasn't there- that kind of thing freaks me out, yet it was when I was with her last week she ended up with a shiner. so....anyway.

From heavy duty helmet to daisy chain! We are getting lots done in the garden because Mae's default wish on a day off is to be lazy. She got out of her pyjamas at 3 pm and we went to the football field and splashed in some muddy puddles. Then she wanted me to make a daisy chain and wore it home proudly. I like lazy days.

Black Eyed Sweet Pea

Mae has a shiner. She rarely hurts herself, but it's my belief that it's okay for kids to hurt themselves so I like to document it when it happens.

She was at the Farm Park the other day and insisted on swinging on the rope swings in the hay bale barn, which is a step too far for me because it looks like head injury central. I let her do it a few times but she insisted once more on the big swing and after falling straight on her head stood back up to smile at me while the knot of the heavy rope was flying back at her face. I actually heard a 'cork' sound.

Yowch.