FIVETRIBE

Today was the long-awaited Adventure party. Honey has been anticipating this since last year....when we said *nope, its more of a tenth party idea*. Imagine my horror when I woke up to piddling rain at 6am this morning! It was touch and go as to whether the party would go on but by 0830 the rain stopped. We arrived at the venue just before 10am and the weather was BEAUTIFUL. The sky was clearing and it was warm enough for the kids to just be in long t-shirts.  Starting out...all clean! The kids has such a blast, the facilitators did a wonderful job of herding them around the course. Honey and her friends whooped their way around the obstacles - so cool to watch ten year olds so unprententious and full of vooma! Lulu had a friend along, and even though she took an early tumble, she recovered enough to later conquer her fear and crack the foofi slide. (thanks to lots of encouragement from her friend, R) Lulu and her friend, R Hooli said it was his best day EVER. (and...

Last nights party was such fun - I was blown away by the effort people went to with their costumes and props. Real testament to their affection for our host, J, who just loves to dress up. Who knew the 1920's could be so much fun? Am waiting for the pro pictures to be posted but for now these are some our our snaps. Some of the crazy flappers. :-)

Summer Celebrations happened at our place today - the kids were all missing their mates and we decided to have an impromptu party today. Cape Town's weather has been begging for us to celebrate the arrival of true summer! We hired an inflatable slip n slide, fired up the solar heating on our pool and invited 25 kids to come join the fun. True to form, Lulu spent the first hour in her room, utterly overwhelmed by all the noise, kids and general rowdiness. I was so touched when I saw Honey sneaking party food upstairs to her and eventually even coaxing her out to come and join the rowdiness. I really enjoy doing this kind of thing - even though it thoroughly depletes me it is so worth it to watch the kids all interacting and having a blast. Mam Honey is showing definite signs of domestic goddess-ness. She has been sewing as well as making us muffins and fresh (delicious) lemonade. Hooligan is back to his perky self and was our star dj today. So good to have him back on form! This wee...