Owen's 5th Birthday Party

At 2pm about 20 children and their parents descended on the Le Majestic Gardens Clubhouse to celebrate Owen's birthday. Most were from his school. His theme was traffic related and he chose the design of the cake. In the days before we made a traffic light piñata that was filled with sweets, cut out endless numbers of printed road signs and made traffic lights. The trusty faithful "pass the parcel" started as the warm up game. We invited Paul, the magic man, to entertain the children with his tricks. They loved it but one little boy didn't particularly like the cockroach trick and had to be reassured it was not a real one! Brendon had arranged a tyre race (discarded tyre's sourced by Brendon and Douglas one night in a vacant plot down the road) and an egg and spoon race. The tyres were spray painted black so that the dirt did not come off and mark hands and clothes. After all the activities there were lots of hungry mouths and the food disappeared in no time. Hotdogs, jellies with worms, fruit platters, crisps and pop corn were devoured. After this it was time for the cake and Owen was so excited his grin was enormous. The last parents left at 5.30pm and Owen was desperate to open his gifts. But during clean up time Owen shot out of the clubhouse and promptly puked on the steps. Maybe one too many jellies I would say!

Party Preparations

I started the cake at 8am and took 4 hours to bake it, level it and crumb coat it. When Brendon got home from work we put the cherubs to bed by 6.30pm and got working on the rest of the decorations and cake. Brendon finished the traffic lights and piñata. I took another 4 hours to ice the cake again and do the fondant work. We were finished by 11pm! Roll on party tomorrow.

The Owen Show

Owen's imagination is something else these days. We went to see Wizard of Oz in March this year and so he decided to create "The Owen Show" complete with an audience. He loves creating various scenes with his Lego and comes up with clever creations.

Graders, trucks, scoops and rollers

Owen loves machinery and especially ones that fix or make the roads so he was thrilled when a whole fleet of them camped outside his bedroom window. It doesn't matter that they start up their engines and the house vibrates from 5.30am they are still stared at with the same amount of enthusiasm as the day before and the day before that and the day before that!

Nursery Buttercup Class Room

While Owen was at Sports Day and the class room was empty I was able to take some pictures of where he spends a significant amount of his week. He sits at the red table with the yellow chairs. He has learnt a lot at school and I am pleased that he is happy to spend his time there. He has a teacher, Mrs. Bexon and 2 teaching assistants, Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Holmes. He goes to the library on Wednesday, PE on Tuesday and has a baking day on Monday. They do lots of creative work, read books, free play and a bit of TV now and again. Erin loves joining him in the classroom every morning and it is a struggle to get her to go home with me.