The birthday day

Well, despite the wonderful warm, sunny day we had yesterday, the rain was back today!

This morning we woke later than usual, as it is school holidays. My sister called at 7:30ish when we were all still in bed except for Grant. She wanted to speak to Abs before she left for school, not realising it was holidays! Well if it was early for us it was earlier for her as she is an hour behind us, so thanks Bev for waking up at the crack of dawn to be the first well-wisher of the day!

After that it was time for MORE presents! Yesterday she opened 2 laundry baskets full!

So a very sleepy Abigail (she takes a long time to wake up in the morning!) was ushered into the lounge and handed a present by Niave who only wanted to open the present herself!

Niave's present to Abigail was...

A bicycle helmet and basket!

We could see she was a little confused as to whether it was for her old bike or a new one!! But we kept her guessing, we told her that maybe there was anew bike hidden somewhere in the house!She started looking......in the office, but it wasn't there!

On the stoep next to all the other wheel toys?Nope! After a little help she found it in the outside shower! There is a little piece of the handle bar sticking out behind her - can you tell that she is not quite awake yet?!

And here it is! She was very happy with it, even though she hasn't smiled yet! (this is all pre-breakfast so we haven't had anything to perk up the blood-sugar level!)

Unfortunately it was - you guessed it - raining, so we couldn't go outside for a test run.

No sooner had we finished looking over the bike when the doorbell rang! More visitors bearing gifts!

Ouma and Oupa arrived bright and early with a big box.

By now we had managed to eat a medium sized bowl of Coco-Pops so we were a little perkier! She couldn't wait to see what was inside the box!

And

it

was

a...

......................

CD player!! Can you tell how impressed she is?!

She was beaming from ear to ear!

When all the excitement was over we got ready for the next part of the day which was a trip to the Ice Station to go ice skating. I had invited 2 friends to join us so there was more fun in store!!

The rain was really quite bad on the drive there and the traffic was also bad due to an accident involving a truck so it took us a little while to get there. But with lots of socks inside the "lovely" boots, they took to the ice! Kelsey went straight in like a pro and Joanna got going pretty quickly too. Abigail who has only skated once before when she was about 3 was a little more nervous but had fun anyway.

The Ice Station, at Grand West is a lot better than were we used to ice skate at the old Good Wood rink and not a bad price, the small rink is R15,00 for an unlimited amount of time! Not bad if you ask me.

Kelsey was very at home on the ice and enjoyed every minute even though she got a blister! Those boots are not the most comfortable. Abs and Jo were a little slower.

Ice skating is obviously hard work because they each had 2 bowls of hot chips and some other snacks along the way!

3 monkeys on a bench! and of course Lilly had to come along too, all decked out in her new outfit - a birthday gift!

Well, after 2 hours of skating and eating, eating and skating we handed back our boots and headed back out into the rain and the traffic which was not much better.

Once home the girls had a great time going through all the gifts and getting stuck into some of the crafty things and just playing in general.

I bought ice cream suckers for the party but forgot to give them out - the usual story, so they had some of those even though it was still raining and very cold.

At last the rain stopped and we could go outside for a ride. Some on old bikes and some on new!