Amelia’s 4th Birthday Party/The Day We Lost the Class Hamster

So we had Amelia’s 4^th birthday the other weekend. Amelia was allowed to invite 6 of her girlfriends over for a fancy dress tea party (which turned into a princess tea party… gag gag) . In the end two of the girls couldn’t make it so we ended up with five little girls (including Amelia) this doesn’t seem that daunting but you would be wrong, thank goodness we brought in reinforcements in the form of Heather. THANK GOODNESS FOR HEATHER. We decided to try to do an old school home birthday party, we planed a couple arts and crafts and then “tea” and lunch out on the deck. Unfortunately for us the girls breezed through the arts and crafts in all of 20mins and lunch in about 30min. We ended up with about 20min of unplanned time EEEPPPP! With some songs and story time we all managed to survive ha ha ha Jeff pulled out his robot voice and some fancy head wear and was King of the Robots, this entertained the girls. I was surprised how long the tea party actually entertained the girls, that and the fancy voice competition.

The party was going okay until I went downstairs and I heard some scratching in the wall, hmm strange. Oh did I mention that we were babysitting the class hamster Simon for the weekend… yeah so he was in the laundry room in the basement so he was safe from the cats and kids. Unfortunately it seems somehow the cage was opened and Simon got out and into the walls of the basement. Not really what we needed in the middle of a 4 year old’s birthday party. AHHHHHHH!!!!

Well the party continued and we survived. Amelia had a great time, I think she enjoyed having all her friends over.

In the evening we had round two of Amelia’s party, the grown up party. It is an annual tradition, all our family and a few friends come over, including Amelia’s boyfriends, Edward and Ronan.  There was much food and drinks in celebration of Amelia’s fourth year.

Amelia is turning into quite the little girl. We have some impressive battles but for the most part she is a cheerful, smart, fumy little girl. In the last couple months she has learned to write all her letters, she hasn’t figured out that they have to go in a certain order to make a word, she frequently writes her name AMLEIA. She is also big into performing these days, dancing and singing are her favs though last night she also got into the piano and harmonica at John and Denise. She has been in swimming lessons for the last few months and she is becoming much more comfortable in the water. She was so proud the other day when she finished her lesson and she had done SIX bobs, she had to tell us all

So if you are wondering about the hamster, yeah… the next day still no sign of Simon the next morning. We were feeling pretty bad and we didn’t want to be the ones responsible for the loss of the hamster. So by 2pm on Sunday afternoon we decided it was time to ACTIVELY search for Simon. We knew he was in the wall behind the toy closet under the stairs so we ended up cutting a few holes and luckily we found Simon after hole #2. Very annoying about the holes but thank goodness we found him!! Simon you tricky little …  When Jeff dropped Amelia off at school the next morning he alluded to the fact that Simon had had some adventures over the weekend. When Jeff picked her up the teachers all had a few laughs as Amelia had spilled the beans on the new additions to our basement décor.