Celebrations!

On wednesday Connor celebrated his 9th Birthday with 10 friends at 'jump' a huge play centre, packed to the rafters with things to swing, slide climb and of course JUMP on! We visited during the day on a weekday and so it was really quiet with only a handful of other children there so they had the place pretty much to themselves and had a fantastic time racing around and getting completely worn out!
He spent a day and night with my mum and dad who bought him his much coveted Wales rugby shirt and a telescope! Hes absolutely fascinated with the planets and solar system, volanoes and earthquakes and is desperate for an opportunity to use it. Sadly its a bit too cloudy here at the moment to see the stars so he's satisfying his curiosity studying pictures in books and watching his "The Planets" DVD that we got with the sunday times!His current fascination is Jupiter which apparently is the largest planet with volvanoes , each the same size as the earths moon!


Later in the week we went to TGI fridays to have a meal with his grandma, his best friend and the rest of his family. The way he tells it "the waiters made me stand on a chair, holding my heavy, burning birthday cake and everyone sang to me"
Of course he loved every second of having the whole restaurant singing to him as you can probably tell from the photo!

We ended the week with Sophie taking part in a regional trampolining competition and coming 2nd in her age group/difficulty level and also winning a gold medal as part of her team! Not bad considering she hadnt practiced all week due to her twisted ankle( which turned out to be a bit more sore than I;d first thought!) and she had forgotten her ankle support, fell on her back during the warm up, everything which could go wrong did go wrong and her coach wasnt able to ne there either so we are especially proud of her. She was absolutely thrilled.