birthday parties :-)

This weekend has been full of busy with Shorty's birthday party yesterday and then a trip out to her friends party today.  As of 1.56 pm on Wednesday Shorty is six years old, I'm wondering if she needs a change of name given she's really not short now and Tiny is going to need a promotion at some point, I'm not sure what's smaller that Tiny so I need to give the name thing some thought.

Anyway Shorty's birthday party was just family, my side of the family.  The ex's side came on Wednesday for an hour, I got that out of the way as quickly as I could and then I could get on with having fun with the kids and my family :-)

We had dinner of roast potatoes, fish fingers, vegy fingers, sausages, sprouts, carrots and sweetcorn because they are all Shorty's favourites and then they played out in the yard with the paddling pool and hose pipe.  I don't know why granddad agreed to supervise the waterfight after he got so wet during the one at Tiny's party but it seems he'll do anything to avoid the washing up and he didn't get quite so wet this time :-)

There was a treasure hunt to find party bags and at one point the kids all disappeared to play upstairs leaving the adults time for a rest and a chinwag so a very nice afternoon was had although by the time people went home at about 1030 I was pretty much ready to collapse into bed.  First guests arrived at 1, well actually first guest arrived at 1030am but without her help with the cooking and furniture moving we'd never have had any dinner so I don't count that as party time really, so it was a very long day for a someone who is now very used to being on her own with her children all day every day!

Today we went to Shorty's friends party and I felt really sorry for the guy who was there to 'entertain' the kids and for the birthday girl.  Some of the older kids really needed a good talking to about not ruining the magic at a little girls party :-(

Tiny held her own amongst the big kids and was very pleased to be allowed to go to the party even though it was a big kids party.  lets be honest most kids are big kids when you're only 2 ;-)

So Shorty is another year older and I have no idea where the time has gone but I do know that all three of us are a whole lot happier than we were when she turned five.