Louisa's Big Day

The birthday in brief:
5.45 am - present opening - sewing box, book, hair clips, dolphin toy and backpack.
7.00 am - ice chocolate slice to take to school.
8.00am - Granny arrives with present - necklace and $20
9.00am - buy sushi for lunch at school.
9.15 am - arrive at school - bunches of kids running out to say Happy Birthday
9.30 am - first rendition of Happy Birthday to You
10.30 am - 2nd rendition of Happy Birthday to You and eating of chocolate slice.
3.00pm - finish swimming and get presents from Joan from Cambodia/Vietnam- t-shirt and doll for birthday - t-shirts and oidan for extra.
4.00pm - home to get ready for night at Becky's
5.15 pm - present from Alec -head torch.
6.30 pm - arrive at Becky's - more presents - writing book, bracelets, paper flowers.
7.00 pm - extra present from Sue - gorgeous Noah's Ark bracelet from Westminster Abbey
7.30 pm - dinner - roast lamb, root vege and couscous salad, green salad.
8.00pm - dessert - cupcakes and chocolate crackles made by Becky, chocolate cake and poached fruit and ricotta cakes lovingly bought by Kim.
8.15 pm - playing the Beck & Trav's dogs Emma and Jack
8.30pm - car trip home
9.30 pm - bed, sleep, dream!

Tent

Alec had the little tent set up in the downstairs playroom at Ashgrove. Joan came in and said 'that's Matts tent you know.'
Alec: "No, it's ours.'
Joan: 'No, we gave it to Matt for his birthday.'
Alec: 'Well anyway we're keeping it.'

The next day at Joans:
Alec: 'Whose wedding dress is that?'
Joan: "It's Kimmy's - I ironed it for Becky to try on.'
Alec: 'Well why is it still here?'
Joan: 'I'm keeping it. You're keeping the tent so I'm keeping the wedding dress.'
Alec: 'It's a deal."

Telephone to Heaven

Thomas answering the phone: 'Dear Heavenly Father, I'm sorry, Hello Fulchers, sometimes I get confused.'
Luckily it was Marion on the phone.

Prayers

Thomas most frequent ending to prayers when he was 8 - 'please do these things, in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.'

Doing jobs

While I was pregnant with Peet I had a broken rib because he was just too big. This led to the other kids doing a lot of jobs around the house.

Alec said to me one day 'it'll be good when the baby is born because then you won't be asking us to do so many jobs'. I assured him I would still be asking him to do jobs. He answered 'yes, but not bending down jobs.'

Jesse

Jesse: "I don't like God.'
Kim: 'Why not'
Jesse: 'I don't like the things he says.'

Petie used to take Jesse out with her and her friends and say 'lets go do coffee with the girls, and Jesse had just heard that she shouldn't drink coffee - of course she only ever had hot chocolate, but she thought the good times were ending.

Jesse

Jesse cut a big gash in her foot and said 'at least I know what's under my skin now -it looks like meat.'

Tom's First Day of School

Joan asked Thomas what he thought of his first day at school -'not really scared - more astonished.'