Lachie got his presents a day early too...all the more time to practice the latest craze!
First attempt:
Then we watched some youtube clips and Lachie had some more attempts (yes, he was wearing a helmet), then more tries at the skate park...he's actually getting pretty good pretty fast!
The cake...Lachie designed this in October last year! Top layer is the All Blacks, next is the Hurricanes (new natural food colouring, so Lachie-friendly!), next layer is the Magpies, and bottom layer was meant to be Onga-Tiko rugby club but after using over half the bottle of new blue natural colouring, we decided it would be "sky" and grass instead. I bought the Lego lollies last year as Lachie had wanted a Lego cake once...they're cool! And they really fit together like Lego!
We met lots of friends at Lindsay Bush for afternoon tea...another super-hot party!
Lachie, let loose with the knife - he chose the biggest one we had!
Lolly scramble!
One of the massive spiders the kids found during the bush walk...Charlie took this photo before it saw all the kids faces and ran away to hide! Honestly massive, as least as long as my fingers!
A lovely afternoon with so many special people! Had dinner afterwards at Nannie and Grand-da's (even after so much cake, chippies and popcorn!), and then we had the cream horns that Nannie and Lachie made earlier in the day while us girls went to Amalia's party. Nannie and Grand-da gave Lachie his own cream horn molds for his birthday among other things to add to his "Masterchef" collection! (He's going to need his own kitchen soon!!) And also got him started with his own $1 coin collection.
And wearing the t-shirt that Daddy's getting all the credit for (when all he did was give it to him!) - but it's just SOOOOOOOOOO appropriate!!!! It says Lachie and 8 on the back. 
Happy birthday to our big 8 year old!!!
After five years of council submissions by me, our footpath is finally getting fixed! It's apparently been a war between Transit who own/maintain the road but don't do footpaths (except for this "goodwill" gesture they made when the highway was first built), and the local council who didn't put the footpath there in the first place so don't have to maintain it...who cares, now it's getting done! And Cooper will be the first of my kids to not get his training wheels stuck (assuming he even gets training wheels, he thinks he can ride a big bike already!)
