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7 is a special number.
Yesterday, it was the Cherub's 7th birthday. I know. Many of you were around when she was born...
Saturday we had her party for her friends, which was a good choice as we had lovely sunshine all day! :)
We came up with an Olympic theme for the party, and this was a great success! Everyone turned up in sports wear, and we started off with an Opening Ceremony, which involved raising the Union Jack (yes we have a flagpole in the front garden!) and lighting a torch which the Cherub then carried round to the back (everyone following) where Darcy had created a mini cauldron - essentially a single petal on a tall pole, but it looked very nice and lit up a treat!
The older girls (Miss M, Impish Girl, and Girl-Next-Door) were Games Makers along with myself and Darcy, and we (of course) all wore our Olympic T-shirts. (Some white, some black - unfortunately we had no pink/purple outfits, nor any beige trousers...) We'd also gotten the girls to record Chariots of Fire on the Wii (Wii music is awesome!) so we had that playing throughout!
There were various events - a running race, javelin, shooting (with a spud gun), penalty shootouts etc - and after each event we had a short medal ceremony using a small podium (a wide, turned up crate) with medals handed out for bronze, silver and gold, so everyone ended up with lots of medals! (The gold medal winners also got a prize - hurrah for vastly reduced mascots! - and magically everyone won a gold medal!)
There was obviously also food at one point, as well as a birthday cake, and at the end, when the events were finished, we put up the badminton net. (And then realised that we couldn't find any shuttlecocks, so they had to play tennis instead. *g*)
Oh and finding stuff for the party bags was the simplest task ever - again, everything is reduced! \o/
Then yesterday, on her actual birthday, we didn't just have a lovely day, but my [older] sister-in-law gave birth, so now the Cherub shares her birthday with a brand new little cousin. (A boy - their third.) In presents (not that anyone is interested, but I'm writing this mostly for me ), her main things were a brand new bike, a new winter coat, a Sylvanian Families School, a Junk TARDIS (from the Doctor' Wife) and LEGO (which she promptly built herself).
We spent most of the day at my in-laws, but when we got home younger brother-in-law turned up, and he'd bought her an Olympics Monopoly set. This had *not* been reduced in price, apparently, although the reason is probably that it is awesome! Instead of roads there are venues to buy (the Olympic Stadium obviously being the most expensive), and you put stands and stadia on them, rather than houses and hotels. The playing pieces are a Wenlock and Mandeville (in uniform), a bus, a London cab, a tube train and... something else I forget. We - of course - had to try it, and the Cherub (with a little help from me) ended up winning comfortably. Because she's awesome. :)
And that's all for now. Hopefully photos to follow at some point.
Saturday we had her party for her friends, which was a good choice as we had lovely sunshine all day! :)
We came up with an Olympic theme for the party, and this was a great success! Everyone turned up in sports wear, and we started off with an Opening Ceremony, which involved raising the Union Jack (yes we have a flagpole in the front garden!) and lighting a torch which the Cherub then carried round to the back (everyone following) where Darcy had created a mini cauldron - essentially a single petal on a tall pole, but it looked very nice and lit up a treat!
The older girls (Miss M, Impish Girl, and Girl-Next-Door) were Games Makers along with myself and Darcy, and we (of course) all wore our Olympic T-shirts. (Some white, some black - unfortunately we had no pink/purple outfits, nor any beige trousers...) We'd also gotten the girls to record Chariots of Fire on the Wii (Wii music is awesome!) so we had that playing throughout!
There were various events - a running race, javelin, shooting (with a spud gun), penalty shootouts etc - and after each event we had a short medal ceremony using a small podium (a wide, turned up crate) with medals handed out for bronze, silver and gold, so everyone ended up with lots of medals! (The gold medal winners also got a prize - hurrah for vastly reduced mascots! - and magically everyone won a gold medal!)
There was obviously also food at one point, as well as a birthday cake, and at the end, when the events were finished, we put up the badminton net. (And then realised that we couldn't find any shuttlecocks, so they had to play tennis instead. *g*)
Oh and finding stuff for the party bags was the simplest task ever - again, everything is reduced! \o/
Then yesterday, on her actual birthday, we didn't just have a lovely day, but my [older] sister-in-law gave birth, so now the Cherub shares her birthday with a brand new little cousin. (A boy - their third.) In presents (not that anyone is interested, but I'm writing this mostly for me ), her main things were a brand new bike, a new winter coat, a Sylvanian Families School, a Junk TARDIS (from the Doctor' Wife) and LEGO (which she promptly built herself).
We spent most of the day at my in-laws, but when we got home younger brother-in-law turned up, and he'd bought her an Olympics Monopoly set. This had *not* been reduced in price, apparently, although the reason is probably that it is awesome! Instead of roads there are venues to buy (the Olympic Stadium obviously being the most expensive), and you put stands and stadia on them, rather than houses and hotels. The playing pieces are a Wenlock and Mandeville (in uniform), a bus, a London cab, a tube train and... something else I forget. We - of course - had to try it, and the Cherub (with a little help from me) ended up winning comfortably. Because she's awesome. :)
And that's all for now. Hopefully photos to follow at some point.