As we will be going away on Emily's actual birthday we held her party a couple of days earlier. Inevitably with it being so close to Christmas, a couple of invitees were away, but the other 6 were luckily available, including all her regular playmates.
Emily looked pretty as a picture again in her lovely frock, though the tights were still just as wrinkled! As we entered Skip Kids she veered off into the play area and that was the last I saw of her for some time
before she sauntered over to graze on the pizza and french fries. Skip has a great menu for adults, and they even have their own pizza oven, but I find that the kids food is limited and not at all healthy. Still, if she can't eat junk at her own party then the world would be very boring. We were all highly entertained by an impromptu Michael Jackson performance by Haru, who is just two and a half. He'd watched so much footage of the singer after his death that he had started doing a very cute impression of 'Rock With Me', complete with a little dance routine.
Tracey and James arrived late on, having driven around the area for an hour or more trying to find the venue. Tracey is now three days overdue and her bump was certainly very prominent. We wondered if proximity to one month-old Cooper would trigger something to happen. Once all were present we asked for the cakes to be brought out, and there was a rather chaotic gathering to sing 'Happy Birthday'.
The party ran well over the two hours we'd expected, but Emily was still very genki as we finally left after 6.45. Only the promise of the Thomas helium balloon I'd picked up earlier could draw her away from her play to head for home.
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