Busy Weekend!

My weekend started in Friday morning as I had taken the day off work to organise Reece's party as I had not done anything. So the morning started with a bang as Reece suddenly realised that he had to dress up for school as part of book week, so we had to run around the house thinking of something that he could wear. In the end he went as a game ranger and was happy with that. His class teachers were wonderful as they all dressed up fully as part of the event. All the classes had a parade to decide on 2 winners per class. So after dropping Reece at school, I went to shop for some cake making items so that I could at least start his cake in the morning. Ideally I should have made it on Wed or Thurs but of course this did not happen.


Heath took Bryce to his sports coaching and his coach could not believe that Bryce is only 3 yrs old as he mentioned to Heath that he has not see a little one with such good co-ordination and such a youngster who can kick a ball so high and accurately. So Bryce came home with a very big proud smile and told me the story of what he was up to. Anyway in this time I had baked a big rectangle cake and was still deciding what type of cake we were going to land up with. It is a dinosaur theme so cannot be too hard. Well then I was back to the shops to buy the rest of the goodies for the party. I started making some meatballs and cooked some small frankfurters and had a disaster as I left both in the oven too long so they were burnt! So much for being prepared!


So now I am not in a very happy mood and I go to fetch Reece from school, he had a good day but was a little sad as his class teacher was leaving on maternity leave so all the kids took forever to come out of the class as they were all saying goodbye. Anyway back home I started getting the icing ready for the cake as we had now decided to make a volcano with plastic dinosaurs as the decoration. It did not turn out too badly and at least Reece had fun decorating it!
On Friday evening we went for dinner at friends down the road from us which was relief that we did not have to think about supper. Not sure how we would have made supper anyway as the kitchen was rather a mess!! We got home a little later than we were hoping as with such a busy day ahead we wanted Reece in bed early but this did not happen.....

Saturday arrived - both Heath and I did not sleep very well so not too eager to get out of bed and the boys did not sleep in either. Anyway I attempted another batch of meatballs which worked out much better and also got some frankfurters sorted for the kids. Then it was a mad rush around to make sure everything else was packed and prepared before we drove to the party place.


Reece has 24 children in his class and 20 of his classmates came to his party and then he had 3 boys from the other class. So we has 23 kids running around but thank goodness we had organised a party organiser to run the show for an hour to have a "Dinosaur dig". Reece was already a bit over whelmed by the time we got there but eventually settled down to start enjoying his day. They started off with a story and then they got all dressed up to start the dinosaur hunt in the gardens. Once this was finished they had some more stories told and then hunted for some "dinosaur fossils" in the sand. They then finished off with some party games. Just as the games were about to start Reece was now totally overwhelmed and started crying, it took us a while to get him calmed down. We then beat the living daylights out a Dinosaur pinata - it is amazing what frustrations you can get rid of on one of these! The day ended with the kids have their faces painted and cake time! Whew - it all started at 3pm and after a whirlwind we finished at 5:30pm.


We quickly cleaned the place up, before getting back home to open all Reece's pressies. I think this was the best part of the day for Reece!He got plenty of lego, books, games - spoilt rotten actually! Bryce was a grateful little helper who found that helping his brother opening presents was also loads of fun... and of course he would open the presents that had balls in ..... so he was over the moon as he is ball mad!
Heath went off to the pub to watch the rugby - go Bokke !!! (Not sure what I am doing as I have no clue how the game works - but I suppose I can support them!!!) which of course we all know by now they won... yipppeeee good day in all.


Sunday - we stayed at home - it was great! Not that we relaxed that much as the housework just never seems to end but it was great to spend time with the boys doing, well, not much. Reece had pretty much build all of his Lego pressies by the end of the day and at around 5:30 we chucked them in the bath and so they climbed out of one set of pj's into a fresh pair of pj's :)


Hopefully not such a busy week ahead - chat again soon.
Cheers
N