It’s been all sunshine and parties this weekend. After a week of incredibly hot weather the boys had their crèche Christmas Party on Friday which was lovely. It started with a proper tea party with fairy bread, brandy snaps, cheerios and cake. The boys got to sit at the proper table (not highchairs) with the big children and looked so grown up that mummy got a bit emotional. Then there was singing Christmas carols where all the children sat with their parents in a big circle singing and clapping happily….. well not ours of course….. Tom and Jack stood in the middle of the circle looking at everyone while they danced and clapped happily to all the singing… it was quite lovely. All the children were then given bells and we sang “jingle bells, jingle bells” until who should appear but Father Christmas loaded with presents. The boys weren’t as impressed by the man in the suit as the older children but happily took their present (provided of course by mummy) and “oohed” and “wowed” nicely. Full of sugar and overexcitement it was off home to play outside in the sun with buckets of water and the hose to cool off.

Saturday we had an easy day before Adrian’s work Christmas Party. The boys joined us at the beginning for the bbq where they wooed everyone with their gorgeousness especially by asking “more, please” very politely to everything they liked to eat. Mummy then took the boys home to baths and bed before joining Adrian back at the party. Our wonderful neighbours Leanne and Alistair kindly babysat while we partied the night away, it was great fun.

Today (Sunday) it was another hot sunny day so after all having our afternoon sleep (mummy and daddy needed a nap too) we all went to Makara beach which is about 10 minutes from our place. We paddled in the water and played with the boys ball until Tom throw it a little too hard and it caught the tide and was off out to sea in seconds it was miles too far for us to get it and off it floated until we could hardly see it….. then some lovely fisherman in their boat noticed the ball when they were coming back into shore and stopped to pick it up. They kindly brought it back in for us and asked the boys into the boat for look which was really kind. The water was lovely and warm so after a good play in the waves and both boys and us being absolutely drenched we’re all back home with the sun going down.

A great weekend, bring on Xmas!