Birthday girl

It's been a few buisy weeks and the blog has not been a priority, sorry about that. Jon has been travelling alot, James and I have had bad colds and I had a history essay to hand in last week. I have also started my job as a teacher assistant in the Swedish school. So a bit chaotic. The worst part I think, it that James didn't sleep well when he was sick, which means we don't sleep well, which means I have no patience and even less energy. But anyway, I managed to hand in my essay only one day late, which was ok by my teacher so I'm very happy about that. Everything culminated with Isabelle's birthday yesterday. Luckily everyone is well now, the fairy cakes were made in time, and she had a great party at school.

Bless her, she asked me last night, if turning 5 means no more bottles of milk at night, so I said, she could have milk before she goes to bed, but never during the night. She is far to big for that. 'Yes, she said, you are right. And I can also wipe my bottom now without help. But how can my body change just because I am 5, does it now it was my birthday today?' 'Well, I said, you change a little every day, but when it's your birthday, you grow a little extra.' I just love how children think.

At school, they have parties when it's someone's birthday, so of course, Anna Kiely has to be as good as all the other housewives, and make homemade cupcakes with icing and the whole lot. They all have to have a goodie bag each as well. So, Emma and Isabelle helped me to make the most beautiful cakes. It was almost a shame to eat them. They also had a short disco afterwards to burn the calories. James joined in and was so cute dancing away with the five year olds. Then we went to the Swedish church for junior-fun and we all had a very nice time. We were not home until 6.30 and then it was time to try out the new High school musical dance Wii game that Isabelle got. They only had a short try, we didn't quite understand what to do. So after putting the kids to bed, the very tired, exhausted mummy (seems to be the story of my life), decided to have her own try, educational purposes of course, had to leanr so that I can teach the girls. One hour later (or maybe two...) I was a superstar dancing to highschool musical and I really had a good work-out as well. Felt so good! Jon was working away on his laptop as I was dancing, his only comment: Are you sure you bought this game for Isabelle?....Of couse, but it's so nice when you can do thinks together as a family, right?!....:)