Playdates

When Lily has a sleep over it is only considered fair, in a certain little sisters eyes, that she gets to have a play date.

I might not necessarily agree with her idea of "play". It was a bit chilly today.

Playing lasso with the hosepipe. Sadly the windows reflected my hands. I wasn't going anywhere near that cold cold water.

The water lasso really got going

Hmmm, washing her friends feet after her friend washed her everything. 

dry clothes and a quick spin down the road

Cami pulling a really weird face. She's concentrating on some patterns they were making each other do.

Lily and Paula stayed in the house, they were rather low key. Turns out it was yet another unsleepover. Lily was asleep tonight at 7.30 bwa ha ha ha. We didn't get home until 7.19. I think she had a great time.

Monkey

When I take Lily to the park she always gravitates to the monkey bars.

She doesn't use them in the traditional manner

ever.

Her friend, Paula, found it odd at first but soon cottoned on.

Mama's play date

 Yesterday me and some of my Mama friends had a play date. The kids all probably think it centred around them and that is fine, let them think that, all good parents let their kids think they come first, bwa ha ha ha ha. My friends Lori and Grace and I all met up at the beach. Lori and her familia are staying there for a few days and they invited us all up/down/across town to spend the day with them.

The kids played in the water and on the sand for hours and were dragged back to land only to eat. These kids don't see each other very often and they have quite a difference in their ages but that didn't seem to matter at all yesterday. I think the fact that all of our kiddies can swim and swim so well keeps them on an even playing field. Aged 5 or 10, it just doesn't matter as they can all hold their own in the water and can play together.

I made a decision to be loser camera mother as this was our play date and not theirs. I left all cameras behind. I also knew that the others would have their or at the very least their phones and would be snapping photos and I would be able to snag them.

I had such a lovely time, it was so relaxing and calming. Ladies, thank you. I left there feeling refreshed. And Marc, what a guy you are, all that girlie chatter and not a word, just that great sense of humour.

All photos below are not mine, I do not have the rights to them, they are all stolen cos I am a slacker!

The Hot Mama's.  Gawd did I really write that.

Lily and Ethan found a crab in the ocean and caught it in a bucket.

Lily, Ethan, Katie Starr, Rosie, Natalie and Liam.......the fun makers

They had such a great time on OUR play date.

Friendships and play dates brought to you by the miracle of adoption and blogging. Lori pointed out yesterday that we have been friends now for 10 years. Her and I met at a Half the Sky walk a Thon 10 years ago. Zoinks.

Letting off some steam

Since school has started the past 2 weeks have been quite intense. Lilys homework has started to pile up again and our evenings are spend doing that having dinner and spending a few minutes reading before they go to bed, after a bath of course.
As this is a 3 day weekend we decided to fill it up with fun, some much needed fun to allow both the kiddies to blow off some steam. Tonight we had planned a swim date and dinner but the weather decided that wasn't going to happen so the kids played here instead. They had a wonderful time and it was so nice to hear the volume level peek to a record high and have kids running willy nilly throughout the house. Dinner for them was nothing more than an inconvenience. Pam and I had a lovely time and enjoyed our dinner as well as all the time we got to spend chatting about her upcoming trip to China to bring home her daughter. We looked at Lily and Rosie's scrapbooks, talked adoption, laughed and listened to the kidlets go beserk.

I think Tw1ster must be one of he oldest games around yet it still entertains the kids today as much as it did me when I was a nipper.

Lily couldn't hold her position any longer and I just happened to snap this as she fell.

I am not sure how it came about but the kids decided they wanted to slide around on the tile floor but Adam didn't have any socks to wear so Lily took him straight upstairs and told him to help himself. We really didn't pay any attention to them as we were in the kitchen either preparing dinner or cleaning up from dinner. A little later on they decided to play some wii and all sat on the couch to do so. Adam is still wearing his "slippy" socks. It takes a real man to be comfortable in purple fluffy socks!

Before we knew it it was 9.30 so we had to call a cease and desist order to the fun. Lily has a very fun weekend planned and somehow we have to find the time to fit in a project that she was assigned today. Of course it wouldn't be a 3 day weekend without an extra dollop of homework in addition to her regular load! I was a little bit pissy when she told me she had a project....god forbid the kids get a break.