Daisy's 5th birthday party

Yes yes yes, sorry about the delay, in posting these photographs below.
The countryside seems to have had an effect on me, in that i now seem to avoid technology.
* I don't let the girls watch tv/dvd's/videos anywhere near as much as they used to. It is now maybe one film a week on Fri night or weekend.
* I don't go on my computer as much as i used to, which is no bad thing, i wasted so much time reading interesting (but not essential) blogs of an evening.
* I don't get my camera out as much as i used to, and this one needs to change.

Which brings me round nicely to Daisy's birthday party photographs of which there aren't that many, but hey at least there are some.
It is jolly hard to remember to actually take photographs whilst trying to amuse 24/30 young children.

Here is Daisy getting herself into the mood before anyone turned up, she was dancing away enjoying herself to whatever Marc put on.



The birthday party was hectic, but very good, and actually worked out very well.
I was worried before the party that i hadn't planned enough and that they would be very bored, especially when Marc said "but i thought you'd done a pass the parcel".

Essentially, I decided against it because not everyone rsvp'd and i wouldn't know how many children were coming and therefore how many layers with lollies etc... to have around the parcel.
Also i figured if all 24 children from her class, plus a few siblings and friends came along, one pass the parcel would take a long time to get around 24+ children and they would be bored, and i've tried two pass the parcels going around at the same time and that gets really complicated.

So i opted for musical statues and musical bumps which seemed to go down a treat.

We had plenty of food, sandwiches (ham or cheese) biscuits, crisps, cucumber sticks, carrot sticks, bread sticks, humus & sausages.
We also had lashings and lashings of ginger beer apple juice.
Here they all are sitting and eating very quietly.

and here is Daisy blowing out her 5 candles on her pink cake.
Janet (Jasper's mum) kindly took this pic of me holding the cake.

We actually had tons of cakes, 36 little pink iced fairy cakes for the children and one lovely big pink iced Victoria Sponge for the parents.
Yummmm...