This morning we walked down to the play area so the children could run off some energy, bought Jasmine some more food, had a bit of lunch in Tesco, Rich and Alfie vacuumed and dusted the car whilst me and H did a few inside chores then off to Sam’s 4th birthday party. It was at David Lloyd gym so involved lots of sporty type games. Alfie and another girl sat all of them out except for the parachute game. He just hates any kind of organised games. It’s weird because he was on the soft play they have there within seconds (whereas the other non-participater was clinging to her mum), is totally unphased by other kids being rough etc (although couldn’t care less about befriending them generally) but just won’t join in any games or things like dressing up, face painting etc. I can’t blame him really. It would be wrong to force him to do things he doesn’t want and I’m perfectly happy with him sitting and watching. I do have to confess to being secretly proud of my confident, pink little H though She was off playing all the games and running round madly with the bigger children. How can you have two children who are so so different yet brought up by the same parents in the same way! She had a ball, bouncing around madly in the pink party dress she insisted on wearing (and was trying to put on, along with her tights, over her trousers lol!)

Both children loved the food (of course!) and soft play. It was great to see Sal too (and not just because Evie also never joins in )Illness has been keeping us apart lol!

In other news, the squirrels broke Alfie’s bird feeder. He has come up with an ingenious idea for a squirrel trapper