The final bit of the birthday.

As I've mentioned previously K & M get to choose either a birthday party or a treat (such as a trip somewhere, so far there's been the Natural History Museum for M and The Comedy of Errors for K).  If they for a treat though, we do have a few friends round for a 'birthday tea'.  Today was the birthday tea, which meant 4 friends plus K & M, so 6 girls aged between 7 & 9.5 here for two hours, with nothing planned except food!

Of the guests, there was one HEded friend, one friend from Brownies, one who we'd met through a mutual friend (they share the lovely C as a piano teacher) and the most recent friend who K had got chatting to in the playground and whose family has recently moved here from Spain.  The last two go to the same school, but are in different years, although they had met at a MadScience thing.  So none of them really knew each other well. 

K & M answered the door dressed as pirates (not entirely sure why!), with wooden swords in hand and spares (a couple wooden and a couple made of folded paper that M had made because there weren't enough otherwise).  The six of them disappeared to play in the garden, with sand, water and mud (staying remarkably clean it must be said) for an hour or so before having a raucously good time over tea.  All in all a very successful birthday tea!

In other news, for the first time K has been getting on with doing thank yous without much nagging reminding about it.  It's also the first time that she's been writing more than 'To X, Thank you for the Y.  Love from K'.  She's not writing much extra, just a little bit, but it's really lovely to see that she's going that little bit further and personalising things.