Bradley's birthday party

We held Bradley's party at 10am in our garden. The kids all had fun with the bubble machine on arrival.

Here's Bradley AKA spiderman.

And Sasha the princess playing pass-the-parcel.


Then everyone sat down to watch a show. There were puppets, magic, balloons and juggling. Kids and adults laughed lots and lots!


Bradley really enjoyed it and was clapping along.

This is 'Bananas' the clown doing tricks.


Cake time. Bradley wanted a 'fish' cake again this year, and was very excited to see this!


We missed getting a photo of Bradley blowing out his candles.


Here are some of the presents from his friends.


Looking happy with 4 hotwheels cars, a helicopter and a carry case, from Tilly.

He even got a Bradley-raptasaurus moneybox and his first Kinex set.

We all had a fab day, and had a lovely blue sky sunny day to top it off!

Bradley's Birthday

Bradley woke up excited and opened up his cards. He was amazed to find a fire engine inside Nanny and Oory's card!
Of course, Sasha helped with the card opening!

Bradley's friends Tia and Emily were having a joint birthday party at a Gymnastics centre. There was all sorts of equipment to try out, but the deep foam pit was a favorite. Here's everyone concentrating on learning some trampolining skills.

And then we all went to McDonalds for lunch, where their party ended.

Bradley said he'd like to see Circus Joseph Ashton, and it was a lovely blue sky day. There were ponies, acrobatics, trapeze, and also a comedy routine involving a washing machine with a red and a green button. The red button made things shrink, and Bradley burst into tears when it was pressed and the warning lights came on. The 'naughty' man who pressed the wrong button was then chucked into the machine, and out came a shrunken man (a little boy). Bradley was not impressed! He must have thought it was all real...

After the circus, the kids played on the grass and opened presents.

Even though they were Bradley's presents, Sasha insisted it was her birthday too and they had to 'do sharing'.

Inside was a cookie cutter set (for playdough and biscuits) and Bradley's first computer games' console, with 40 built in games.

And at home they got another present - a popcorn maker.

We had a little chocolate cake with ice-cream and strawberries.

Bradley enjoyed his day lots.

Sasha's pretty new earrings

It was totally unplanned... we were coming out the shops after playgroup and bumped into Belinda. She had just got Lily's ears done at the chemist and said there were two ladies in there that did both ears at the same time. I asked Sasha if she wanted 'pretty earrings like Lily's' and Sasha said yes. So in we went, chose some 24ct small studs, and Sasha sat on my lap. Two little dots were marked on her ears with pen, a quick wipe of some antiseptic which made her laugh and say 'cold', and then it was one, two, three GO.
Sasha burst into tears, for a couple of minutes, and we distracted her with a mirror to look at her pretty ears. She screamed when they tried to spray some antiseptic over them, but when we told her it was just 'a cold one' she held still.
Everyone else we saw that day noticed them straight away, and she loved the big fuss that was made over her. The first thing she did when we got home was show daddy, and she understands not to touch it, so fingers crossed that it all heals up well.