She's Back

The sweet, lovely little Brooke is back after a few weeks of her trying to boss Dad (and most other people) around. This weekend she has been full of cuddles and snuggles - A pleasant change.

Tomorrow Aunty Jodie, Cameron and Mackenzie arrive. The girls are really looking forward to it and are already planning a sleep over.

Brooke's Birthday Party

Today was Brooke’s birthday party, she turns five tomorrow. Brooke had six boys and six girls (and their siblings) come over for a couple of hours for games, lollies and cake.

This year Brooke ordered a “Celebration Castle” (the place were the My Little Ponies live) birthday cake and as always Mum was up most of the night, decorating. When Brooke saw the cake, she merely reminded Mum that there were curtains on the entrance to Celebration Castle.


As you can see, Mum soon made a set.

The birthday party also saw Aunty Kirstie’s debut as a child face painter.

She did a great job, but she didn't do this one.

All good parties need a couple of tears. Brooke had a minor melt down when her friends were all over her swinging chair and CJ (quite rightly) called for the ice when she found herself standing in exactly the wrong place when her friend served up the totem tennis ball.

In other news, yesterday CJ signed up for tutoring with Kip
McGrath to help her with her spelling and english. She is also using the Math Power program so she should be a genuis very soon.

A brief catch up.

Not a lot seems to be happening at the moment. The girls are busy every day but a lot of it is just general playing etc.

Courtney has started keyboard/piano lessons and she is also trying out Maths Power in an effort to get her a little more up to speed. For some reason "they"have changed the way that basic math is done at school so Mum and Dad were having a hard time keeping up.