More Bdays

 Our awesome weekend started off a little rough.  We decided to go to the Heron for dinner on Friday night and got a flat on the way home, in the dark.  It isn't safe to stop the car at night so we had to drive home with it and wait till morning to survey the damage.  Not bad and Carl had his first chance to change a flat.  Given my extensive experience I had earned the luxury of delegating, after all Carl needs the practice.  Right?

 We had 2 more Birthday parties on Saturday!  Theo is getting very good at saying Birthday and cake by now.  The first was for a little girl turning 2 and Kaia wrote out the card.  She can't spell or write on her own yet but she can tell me what she wants to say, I write it on another sheet of paper, and she can transcribe it onto her card.  I am beaming with pride!!  The birthday girl has 3 much older siblings and the football/rugby/soccer (I don't really know what) was on so the party wasn't very kid focused.  Instead they set up a trampoline next to the pool with a rope system set up so you could jump from the trampoline and ski barefoot into the pool with a huge splash!!!  It was awesome!!  And totally illegal in any 1st world country.  They are moving home in December and are getting it ALL out of their system.

 Then in the evening was the party for the husband of a very good friend of mine.  When she saw the cockerel cake she excited exclaimed in her beautiful German accent 'ohh, I must have it'.  So this is her version of our inspirational cockerel cake.  And then she bought him 2 chickens for his birthday.  

Sunday was much more chilled.  We all worked out on the front porch.  Tell me how super cute those kids are!!  Then we vegged in front of the tv for movie afternoon over our first pot of guacamole from this year's avocado harvest.  Very much looking forward to even more chilling when Carl starts break at 1200 on Wednesday afternoon.