What a weekend it's been. We began on Friday afternoon with Holly's performance as Amanda Thripp in her drama group's performance of Matilda. She was brilliant, even allowing for parental bias. She sang and performed with confidence and expression, and looked like she was loving every minute:
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| "My mummy says I'm a miracle" |
Saturday was a family gathering in honour of Louis and Helen's birthdays, although we did manage a wee outing to D Mains park for a bit of rope swinging and fresh air beforehand. The food theme of the afternoon was Mexican, so Scott, Michelle and Calum brought a piñata, which went down a treat:
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| "The donkey's pooing sweeties!" |
Sunday morning saw Holly making and decorating a cake for Louis' birthday, this time modelled along a minion from the Despicable Me movie series. It was a tricky project, but she had the vision, the technique and the patience to pull it off (with minimal grownup help). The end result was brilliant, and drew comments of admiration, even beyond the (unbiased, naturally) family:
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| "Gelato!" |
Just in case we didn't have enough on, we took Grandma Pat to Roseleaf for Mother's Day lunch. It was splendid, they do the most marvellous burger with an additional slice of Stornoway black pudding which rendered even me sated for a good couple of hours:
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| "Happy Mother's Day!" |
Finally, the highlight of the weekend - Louis' "friends" party at Jenn's Den, our local and recently-opened family cafe and play space. It all went remarkably well, considering the apparent predilections of a dozen or so six and seven year old boys, which mostly run to beating the stuffing out of each other:
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| "Ahoy mateys, the force is strong with this one, arrrr." |
