Chokloot

Sometimes, small things make such a big impression

I want chokloot.

So does Cara.

It's probably the best thing ever

Happy Birthday, Cara

It was Cara's 6th Birthday on the 19th.

Six, eh? Sheesh.

Needless to say she had an awesome day

She asked for a cake with fairies on it. In the past we'd always drawn on the cake with icing tubes, but given that it was a cream cake, we had to go another route:

I think I was the most chuffed about this. But I don't care.

To add to all that, they had a sleep-over at Grandma's that Saturday and she got a letter saying that she'd been accepted to receive tuition for violin, viola or cello (please, please, please don't let it be the cello, it's too biiiiiiig). Anyhoo, it's really excellent news as we were beginning to think that no news was bad news. The deal is that, if you are accepted to do this thing, you get free tuition (as long as you turn up to the orchestra practices at the weekend as well - which is cool).

Jo's up next.

Nine, eh? Sheesh.

Easter into Summer

We've all been busy, Meriel with Ecomodo, which has recently launched and Cara with her plasticine (Jo with his Beastquest and DS).

Since the introduction of the iTouch, the blogging has suffered. It's quicker than a computer for most uses, but can't blog so well - end result, less blog posts.

Anyway, there have been birthdays (well, one really, Meriel's 40th) and birthday presents (a trip to Jersey on the bikes):

There have also been numerous other 40th birthdays, most recently John's down at Sausmarez Park (an 80's affair with some of us dressing up so much that we no longer looked like we did in the 80's - not me, mind):

And we've had visitors over Easter, namely Kirk, Helen, Finlay and Alice - which was awesome:

There have been other things going on, of course. Kids are doing well at school, we're well into the summer term. Jo is fast approaching the time when we'll have to look inot the workings of the 11+. Cara is well established in the infants dept and Lenny is PTAing (not a real word, I know) as usual.

I'm not about to make resolutions about more frequent entries, but the evidence of what is going on is loosely conveyed by our Flickr account, which usually serves as a reminder about what should be blogged anyway.