Party time

and it felt like a gathering of the blogring with a few extras thrown in 😉

As mentioned elsewhere, the party was for Alex and B, and in attendance there was us, Jan and co, and Sarah and her tribe as well as a couple of other home eddors and some non blogging, non home edding guests. It was a good mix, and a good party, despite the concerns of the two hosts. I spent a lot of time communing with R, Barbara’s youngest, who doesn’t seem to mind me at all. Was quite impressed that Small is not only not jealous when I cart a baby around, but actually comes and strokes the baby very gently. Odd, as he is less than gentle at other times. I noticed though that he is very careful with children smaller than him, completely ignores children around his size, and is only marginally more interested in children bigger. Basically he’s a very independent little soul.

Before we went, Big prepared birthday cards, and helped me wrap presents. She copies what she puts in the cards, but I’m very impressed with how neat her writing is getting considering that the occasional copying stint is the sum total of her practise. (Oh and the JP books, but we don’t do them all that often). I also like how her drawing is coming along – ppl have fingers and hair now 😉 Hm, just realised I don’t have a category for writing…that’s an oversight!

Anyway, today we’re out again, to a reunion of her old nursery friends. I’m not really looking foward to it, I’m going to very out of the loop with these ppl, who now all have children in school, and pretty much all work full time. Plus it’s being held at a Brewsters – yeuch. But Big and I have discussed it, boy have we discussed it, and she desperately wants to go, even though she is terrified that Brewster might be there. I think it’s almost guaranteed given that it’s half-term. What is the deal with the man dressed as bear anyway? Why is this supposed to be fun?