Toothless wonder.

This may very well be the last picture of Abigail with 2 top front milk teeth in her mouth!

Last night (at about 9pm when she should have been asleep!!) her first top tooth "fell" out - with a little help!!

She had been in bed for a while - long enough to have fallen asleep, when she came to tell me that her tooth was bleeding. We wiggled and tugged but it didn't come out so I sent her back to bed. It must have been irritating her because this cycle repeated itself a few times when finally she came to me with tooth in hand and a toothless grin!!

She had to phone Ouma and Oupa straight away and did not want the tooth fairy to take it because she wanted to show them the tooth today. That was a good thing as I had zero cash in my purse and I wasn't about to go off to the ATM in my pj's!!

So, she has left it in a little bowl next to her bed tonight and I think the tooth fairy may have visited already and left a shiny coin!!

We'll have to wait until tomorrow to see...

A pink party

This afternoon Abigail went to yet another party!! It was a "Pink Party" for her friend, Imaan's 9th birthday, which is tomorrow.Abigail, Imaan, Kelsey - the Rotherfield rd girls!!

There was a lot of pink!! Pink cake, pink sweets, pink party boxes, pink plates, pink cups, pink treasure hunt, pink balloons, pink wigs... as I said there was a lot of pink!!

They had a great time with lots of fun games and lots to eat, including a (pink) chocolate fountain! Mmmmm!!

There was also a big pink flower pinata which was a lot of fun. I've never had a pinata at any of my own kids parties but I think this is going to be the year!!

Thanks Imaan, and Imaan's mom, for a super afternoon.

Tokai Market

On Saturday we finally got to go to the Tokai Market in Tokai forest! I have heard a lot about it and have been meaning to go for ages.

It was really good, very rustic and foresty! Very child friendly and full of yummy things to buy! And also other inedible things to buy!!

We bought some homemade chicken liver pate, 3 loaves of homemade bread, delicious smoked snoek and pancakes!

There is a great kiddies play area and huge sandpit that Niave really enjoyed.

It is well worth a visit. (Sorry Bev, this is another outing we're going to have to do when you are here, I think you best extend your stay by at least 2 weeks!!)

Swimming gala.

Yesterday Abigail had her inter-house swimming gala. She swam in the grade 2 class race. Last year she had a grade 7 helping her, this year she has improved so much she was with the "swimmers"!! I am amazed at how well she is doing seeing as the only time she swims is at school. Today she swam a whole length of crawl (freestyle).

Anyway, here are some pics:

ready,

set,

go!

She had a good time cheering as well, although it is competitive, there is a lot of emphasis on fun too. Her house came second (lost by 4 points!!!) but the girls all enjoyed themselves.

There was a picnic in the schools gardens afterwards and so we were all exhausted by the end trying to keep track of Niave who was on the run - I'm hoping by next year I might be able to eat my picnic in one sitting without having to hop up every 2 minutes to rescue her from somewhere!!

But, well done Abs on a good race and on becoming such a good swimmer!

4:30 a.m.

At 4:30 a.m. this morning Niave was having this conversation with me:

"Mom, if the aeroplane squishes me,you must squish the aeroplane"!

All she got in return was a half hearted "okay" because as I said it was 4:30 a.m.
I have no idea what prompted this train of thought, there may well have been an aircraft flying over but I was fairly asleep so I wouldn't know!

Happy birthday - part 2!!

Hopefully this will work, I've been up since 5 a.m. trying to get this uploaded but so far I've been unsuccessful... hope this time I've got it right.

Happy Birthday Bev!

It is my sister, Beverley's birthday today. She lives in England and as it is very cold and snowy there at the moment, we wanted to send her a cheerful birthday greeting!! BUT, I am still trying to figure out how to do that!!! (Watch this space...) So here are some pictures in the meantime: (hee hee hee!!)

The collage above is made up of pictures from her younger days!
And below more recent ones.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEV!

We hope you have a wonderful not-too-cold birthday. Love from all of us in Sunny South Africa.