Today was my fab friend T's birthday, so we planned to surprise her with a bit of a celebration!  

We all met at the end of her driveway at 12 noon - then we all drove up the driveway together beeping our horns to the tune of Happy Birthday!!  :)  

Plotting:

J brought a cake, I brought sparklers and party favours...and we all brought food and gifts:

I even brought some Hawaiian bits and pieces so that our fabby friend L would be there in spirit (she is in Maui right now) 

What a fun afternoon!!  Happy Birthday T  :)  

Love you lots xxx

Recent art....

pastels:

Fab book I found at the thrift store:

Mandala on my pastels:

This girl now has writing in her hair:

Prepping a project for an upcoming workshop on self esteem:

Tuesday snapshots...

Yesterday we headed to gymnastics for the morning:

Abby tried our her toe separators from her pedicure kit.  She was walking around like this and it made me laugh:

I dropped Abby at her friend R's house for the afternoon, and R's brother C came back to our house to play with Sam for the afternoon:

In the mornings I take Susannah to her bus stop for 7:30am then I come home, make coffee and relax in my armchair and catch up on Facebook.  

Sam and K making faces at each other:

Girls having fun in the foam pit:

candles by my bathtub last night:

Playing with new apps:

Bath time bliss :  

Monday - Samlol turns 8 :)

Samuel (who has now changed his name to Samlol) celebrated his 8th birthday on Monday.  He was up in time to open his gifts before Laurence left for school - although I had already taken Susannah.  

He is so happy to be 8.  He can now get the grown up wrist band at the swimming pool and doesn't have to stay with me the whole time :)  

He finally got the rock tumbler that he had wanted for a long while:

And he got the pogo stick he was excited to have :)  

One very happy boy!  

He got play foam too and we sat and made shapes together for a while.  Abigail didn't sleep well, so she went back to bed for a sleep until lunch time - which gave me a whole morning to play with Sam:

Sam got to choose where we went for dinner - at first he picked soda jerks - and then at the last minute he decided he just wanted to go to Boston Pizza - so that is what we did:

When it was time for dessert, the servers all came out singing to Sam - he loved it:

During the day we went to the library and Abby picked these books as she is currently obsessed with making things for her doll:

Abby got herself a new hat too:

Mondays bedtime story:

I think he had a fun birthday - and his party is on Saturday with all his friends :)