Party like a rock star

Shortly before heading out of the house to go to a birthday party with the girls this morning I asked Lily to please grab me the 2 waivers off of the printer. She wanted to know what they were so I told her that I had just signed 2 forms stating that if either of them got maimed or killed at the party today I wouldn't hold either the hosts or the venue responsible.

Her response, "cool, I love Katie Starr and Ethans parties".

Yep, they set the bar high when it comes to partying like a rock star but at the same time keep it real. Todays venue, Funky Fish Ocean Club, where the kids would learn to Boogie Board and make a tie dye shirt as a party favour.

And after travelling north for 55 mins the kids had the time of their lives in the ocean, boogie boarding. I grabbed my camera and headed to the waters edge to snap away and my camera turned off and required fresh batteries which I failed to bring. I took some shots with my phone but since the little email incident (that I may not have mentioned here) I am not getting great phone camera shots on the blog. ( I know it makes no sense but I can't get into it, it will take hours).

As the kids swam and boogied we talked and relaxed and I got sunburnt knees, yes really I did. How on gods green earth does one sunburn ones knees? It was fabulous, not sunburning the knees, the setting!. I sat perched on the sand in a chair watching the girls and the other children having a child perfect day. I talked to a sweet friend whom I never get to see and the day drifted along without us. H.E.A.V.E.N.L.Y.

I would have bet a vast sum of cash that my girls would have fallen asleep on the way home because they didn't stop but luckily I am not the gambling sort as they both stayed wide awake chatting incessantly about the day.

I loved spending the day with these families and my kidlets did too.

The 2 kids in the middle of the photo laying on boogie boards are mine

Rosie, wearing the spotted suit, waiting for a wave

Lily

Ro

As for the rest of the photos, the cake cutting etc. yeah, i have no idea either. They are currenting lost in cyber hell.

Such a fabulous day was had by all.
Happy 8th birthday Katie Starr.

The skating chicken

Today was our friend Trevi's 8th birthday party and she had it at an ice skating rink. Since Hollis and her girls are family to us, hey we choose our family, blood does not decide family in either household, Lily forfeited the 2nd part of her swim meet to attend. Trevi is another sister to her and she wasn't about to miss her sisters birthday. (those were her words)

Anyhoo, we all skated and had a great time. Thankfully Rosie is starting to get the hang of it and I am no longer being pulled down on the ice every 5 feet. Lily has mastered the art of going very fast but still has not mastered the art of stopping which is a bit dodgey to say the very least but proves to be hilarious. Her and Anlei took off with another friend and were frequently seen whizzing by.

For reasons that were not made clear to anyone, this particular skating rink has two people dress up in costumes and come out on the ice. One is a chicken and the other a penguin. The both do the Chicken Dance. It is hilarious and all the kids dance with them. Once the dance is over they skate around the ice once and then leave. Odd? yes I do believe it is. As the chicken was making his victory lap Lily, with the speed of a Ferrari, skated in to him and sent him flying. The poor defenceless chicken, span around, wobbled and then went down. Rosie and I just happened to be coming down the home stretch and saw it happen. It was a classic moment. We stopped so as not to fall on top but sadly the penguin didn't see us stop and he ran into us. It was a nasty feathery pile up on the ice.

A great time was had by all. We haven't been able to spend much time with Hollis and the girls due to our swimming schedule and their soccer schedule so just being together with them and the rest of the family was much needed.

Rosie hanging on for dear life

The skating chicken before the incident

Lily and Anlei after the incident. Lily can't even stand up she is laughing so hard

Don't they look concerned? Not so much!

Little Trevi, all the way to the right. I really can't believe she is 8.

Double trouble.

Ahh, Rosie's favourite part of the ice arena, the Manboni. 

Once the party was over the ice was cleared and Rosie suddenly came dashing in to our party room begging for me to come quickly because the Manboni was out there. The what? The MANBONI. I'm guessing that's the same as the Zamboni. She loves watching it polish the ice, I think it is her favourite thing about ice skating.

Birthday party fun

Today we had the wonderful joy of celebrating Emma Song's 2nd birthday. Emma is my friend Pam's little girl and baby sister to Adam and Noah. Unfortunately Lilipop is feeling under the weather so she stayed home with Dad and I went with Rosie. I received a text from Lily after an hour asking me to please come home, so I did. Lily lives life to the fullest so when she goes down she goes down hard so when I got that text I knew she must have really been feeling dreadful so I didn't hesitate in excusing myself and leaving there and then.

The party was wonderful and Rosie had so much fun. I did to. I just love to watch Emma as she has the most amazing facial expressions and she just makes me giggle. She is a wild child too and is afraid of NOTHING. Child just throws herself into life full tilt....literally. This makes getting a photo of her very, very hard. 

And the party begins And the birthday girl starts moving

Boing

Isn't she lovely?

Rosie in the spinning bucket. It span her pretty fast.

Smiley girl loves this place

Wow, so many bubbles

This ball pit was a huge hit.

THe birthday girl and her family

Isn't that the most beautiful cake? It was delicous

So much fun for all these little ones. Happy birthday Emma.

Can we do this again and again

Today the girls and I were all excited cos it was their friends' Evan and Danielle's birthday party. We spent as much time as we possibly could keeping busy until the very last second and then we hopped into the car and headed over to their house. I was excited because we were going to see the movie, A Dolphin Tale and I haven't seen it yet.

Evan turned 8 and Danielle turned 3. Good grief this is amazing to me. We always mark special milestones with Jen, Ed and their kidlets and to see baby (cough cough) Danielle turn 3 just makes my brain itch.

Since Jenny and I have been friends for close to 15 years or something nuts like that we now have a lot of mutual friends so I of course didn't see one second of the movie cos I was talking, the whole time, big surprise. Oh and if I wasn't talking I was eating cake cos really I don't think it's just for kids. I am probably the only adult at kids parties who openly fights for a piece of cake and makes it quite obvious that I don't want a small slice cos I am NOT on a diet. Why does every female on the planet claim to be on a diet when it comes to eating cake? I seriously don't get it.

As much as I loved the party and the cake ( hey it was really good) the icing on the cake was seeing Danny, Ellen and Mikkel again and of course meeting Chynna. I had no idea they were going to be there and it was such a fabulous surprise. Lily and Chynna got on like a house on fire. She is the cutest little thing and so full of personality. Her and Mikkel are like peas and carrots they just belong together it is the sweetest thing to see. He isn't much bigger than her but he has her back already. Oh my gawd, be still my heart. He takes his role as big brother s.e.r.i.o.u.s.l.y. and she watches out for him too.

Party animals

Princess Danielle.

Somebody tooting her own horn

Looky .......how cute are these 2 little ones, and my big one. 

Lily adored her........it isn't hard.

cuteness x 2 

singing happy birthday 

And then a friend came over to me and said, do you think Lily and Rosie would like to ride horses this afternoon? And I said, really? Why yes I know they would, so we hightailed it home and Lily got changed and I will post photos of the rest of what has been a truly fabutastic day, tomorrow. Oh and why are there no photos of Evan? Have you tried to take a photo of an 8 yr old boy on his birthday at his party while he's all hopped up on soda, cake and ice cream lately? No, I didn't think so. I have some but he's nothing but a blurrrrrrrrrr.

Birthday Fun

My kids should be waterlogged. If they aren't either at swimming lessons or swimming on the team then they are swimming for fun or at swimming birthday parties. It's amazing that they don't get tired of the pool. I'm sure if it was piano practice there would be some very loud protests by now.

Today one of Lily's friends had a pool party for her birthday and we were all invited. Since the birthday girl happens to have a little sister the same age as Rosie it meant that neither Jacob nor myself had to get into the pool to keep little Miss entertained as she was happy as a clam playing with Camilla.

Rosie and Camilla

Lily and Paula at war

Rosie doing a cannonball

Lily chillaxing

Rosie and Cami jumping in hand in hand

After spending a few hours at the pool we headed back to the house for some food. THe bigger girls hanging out

Hah, piano practice, it lasted 3 seconds!

Happy Birthday Paula.

The girls had a fabulous day and we got so lucky with the weather. The rainy season is upon us and most afternoons offer a good tropical thunderstorm. Luckily it held off today and didn't happen until 7ish this evening, just as the party was coming to anend.