Thanks for all the messages and birthday wishes. 🙂
I had easily my best adult birthday and a definite contender for Best Birthday Ever (although my 18th probably beats it still).
I had a lovely long lie in followed by tea, toast and presents from Ady, Davies and Scarlett. I got a gorgeous set of underwear, chocolates, bath stuff, a beautiful wine glass which Davies had specifically instructed Ady to get, some fimo beads made my Tarly which I have now strung onto thread to make a bracelet and home made cards from the children. Davies’ has a picture of me on the front and lovely writing with loads of kisses and hearts, Tarly’s contains her first ever writing of her name all by herself so is very special 🙂 Apparently Ady went out of the room for something and when he came back she’d written ‘Scarlett’ all by herself. I admit to being slightly sceptical as although she’s been typing it for a while and spelt it out with the foam letters last week her actual writing was fairly non existant. But in the car yesterday afternoon she wrote it again on the steamed up window 🙂 She’s now picking out the letters of her name everywhere and is dead chuffed with herself 🙂
Then my Mum arrived to take me over to Brighton to the Lush shop. Every year my parents spend lots of money on things I am not particularly bothered about having been bought (not to sound too ungrateful there 😉 ) so this year Ady had said to them that one of the things I was really missing being able to spend money on was nice bath stuff and the very best present they could get me would be Lush products. So she took me over there and when we got in the shop told me I had £50 to spend 🙂 And because they had their January sale on for every £15 spent I’d get a free gift too. So I spent nearly an hour going round filling my basket up and got nearly £80 worth of stuff in two massive bags which is now all beautifully arranged in the bathroom scenting the house.
We went back to my parents for lunch where Ady and the children were already waiting and had lunch and pink fizz, then came home. Layla, Si, Claudia and Jasper arrived and we had a lovely evening. The children all played really nicely, Jasper was gorgeous, Ady cooked a lovely curry followed by Thorntons birthday cake, loads more fizz and general chat. So nice 🙂 We all went to bed around midnight I think. I took Tarly to bed, got in with her for a quick cuddle and woke up around 1.30am having fallen asleep with her 😳
This morning we had a birthday party to be at for 10am which was a bit of a struggle but we managed it. It was Lily (as in Liam and Lily, our friend who go to school and some of you would have met at our parties) and the party was at a local sports centre in a big room with a bouncy castle and various climbing and soft play type stuff set out. There were probably about 15 children there – mostly Lily’s age (4) and then Liam (7 tomorrow) and Davies. The children found energy sources from somewhere on their 8 hours sleep and raced around climbing, bouncing and leaping about for an hour and a half and had a whale of a time. Ady and I sat watching them speculating on how different a child Davies is now to the 3 year old he once was. Neither of them show any signs of shyness or self consciousness in envrionments like that anymore, they get stuck in and have a good time, playing with any available child they come across. We left there and popped into Sainsburys to get a chicken for dinner. Ady popped out to get some logs, I got dinner on and we all ate together around 4.30pm.
The children had a bath and were asleep really early, we watched Confetti on dvd that I’d borrowed from work and I’m about to head off to bed, even later than last night (how did that happen then? :lol:). Tomorrow MM starts up again and I’m taking Davies along to see what happens at Beavers in the evening, so right back in the swing of things again. 🙂