A weekend of parties

What a full weekend! we had a wonderful party on Saturday. 14 children running amok. Little groups of adults spread across our lawn eating, chatting, laughing, drinking.

Piles of meat meant G and his mate Gray manned the bbq from about 6 to 8.30.

We had all Bax and Izzie's ride on toys out - plane, tractor, four bikes, cow; as well as ball pool, swimming pool, castle tent with tunnel - and all the kids just zoomed up and down between courses of dinner, cake, ice blocks, fuelled on apple juice and soda water.

Many drifted away as night fell. The few that were left sat around among the candels and coloured fairy lights as we filled both Gubbas with hot bubbly water and threw the children in, two at a time to splash and wash and calm down. Then towels, odd assortments of what-ever-fits-wear-it outfits, and Izzie to bed as the others curled up on chairs and laps. There was a brief moment of chaos-returned at about 10 when we turned up the music and those still awake enough to danced on our brand new paved patio - Bax was in the midst of that of course and finally went to bed at 11 still claiming he was too awake to sleep.

And then last night, bax and I went and kidnapped Auntie H and Miss O and the four of us went into town to push our way through the crowds at the Lantern Festival in Albert Park. That was a smash hit too, especially the "peanut butter chicken" that is satay on a stick. Miss o was wearing a bright red chinese dress, red mary-janes, and had her hair in high bunches. bax was wearing a white chinese jacket, a ben Sherman t'shirt with iceblocks on it, black shorts and striped yellow and black boots with bees on them. We had to stop about 12 times for people who wanted to take pictures of Miss O and everytime Bax would match into the shot too and hold her hand.

it was a bit mad of us because we nearly lost them in the crowd about a trillion times, they refused to hold hands with either Auntie H or myself and would only do so with each other. Also, they kept sitting down in the middle of the constantly moving crowd and then telling us to "sit-down too". Who in their right mind would take two two year olds to a park with 50,000 people in it? Crazy white folk.