Little Z's 7th birthday is finally over and I must admit that I am not sorry to see the back of it. Yes, I know that sounds like I am talking about a visit from a bossy old aunt (don't have one of those, all my aunts are lovely - just in case they ever get a computer and read this!!), but she has been talking about her birthday daily since Christmas and has got much worse since May when practically everyone in the extended family apart from Little Z has their birthday.
The day itself went very well. She managed to get up early (a major achievement in itself) to open the presents which had arrived and was very happy with what she got. Being a very girly girl, she was given lots of dressing up costumes, hair accessories and jewellery. She had a lovely day at school. She got to stand at the front of the class while they all sang "Happy Birthday" and then she was allowed to "show & Tell" some of her pressies. At the end of the day Granny & Seany turned up to surprise her from school and we had a little (okay, it was quite big) buffet style tea party.
The problem with children's birthdays is that they always seem to last longer than 1 day. Little Z's birthday continued into Saturday, when we decided to go out to Lepe Country park (again) for a walk on the beach (Granny was there this time to watch Seany and make sure he played nicely!). We still had loads of food left from the Friday's buffet, so we had another tea party to finish that off. Then on Sunday, Little Z had her party at Ollie's, an indoor soft play centre in southampton, with nine of her friends.
Ollie's did us proud with the party. I didn't have to life a finger, except to write the cheque at the end, but it was not too expensive. It cost just over £7 per child which included 1 hour play, 45 mins in the party room for food, our own party hostess, party bags, unlimited cold drinks for the children during play and party time and a couple of free hot drinks for the PP & I. It was well organised, the food was good and the children enjoyed themselves. It would have cost far more than that at home and I would have had to do all the organising and cleaning up too. for seventy odd pounds its worth it to save us the stress.
So, now it is all over for another year, little Z has already started talking about Christmas with the occasional mention of Halloween and Guy Fawkes night.
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