Poppy's party

May 22, 2011

Poppy's party

Poppy turns 3 on Wednesday (25th May), but we had her party yesterday as it's much easier to arrange these things for weekends. When asked what she wanted for her party she said "cake, icecream, sharks" so we decided to hold it at the Sealife Centre and invited 9 of her friends from nursery and other places along. With Poppy, Finn and William that made a total of 12 young kidlets and we'd already made the decision that parents didn't have to stay with their children, so we took on quite a challenge! Luckily we had plenty of help - my friend Victoria offered to look after the boys, Sir was there to assist, my mum and sister came along to help as did Sir's mum, so we had one adult to every two children.

In the end they were all really well behaved, apart from one incident where a little girl got terrified of 'Snorkel the Shark', a mascot who came to visit the party and lead some games, and another little boy peed his pants in the middle of 'musical bumps'! But otherwise it went really well and all the kids had a great time. There was a party room set aside for us, with food and drink provided (including a beautiful cake, and yes there was icecream too!), time for songs and games with Snorkel the Shark and another member of staff, a special touch-pool discovery encounter where the kids were allowed to hold lots of the creatures and ask questions about them, and plenty of time to look round the centre and go in the shop. Poppy was in her element, showing her friends the different types of fish she knows and spending lots of time in the underwater tunnel watching the sharks swim above. Finn loved looking at all the different fish and even William enjoyed parts of it (especially the jellyfish which were lit up from behind so he could see them really well), though he did have to spend some time outside when he got grizzly.

We gave Poppy her presents yesterday too - we got her a baby bunny as a pet now that she is old enough to help take care of it. We went on Friday night to a house fairly near here, where a litter of rabbits was born a few months ago and are now ready to be rehomed. Poppy was allowed to choose which bunny she wanted and she chose well - it's a little boy bunny (who has been named 'Cookie') looking similar to this:

She got a painting easel and art set from her brothers, and lots of other lovely presents from her friends and family. A special thank-you to one lovely friend we made through this blog who sent us an e-voucher again for the childrens' birthdays: we got Poppy a 'Peppa Pig' play house with her portion of the money, which she absolutely loves :) On her actual birthday we're having her Nanny and Grampy and her Grandma over for a family tea, chosen by Poppy herself.

Happy birthday to my Poppy poppet - i'm so proud of the beautiful little girl you've become and wish you much happiness this year xxxx