La Rentree- Back to School 2008

Second year in the Maternelle, and getting ready to get on the bus to start in the Moyenne classe.

Thank you!

Thanks to all my friends for coming to my birthday party last week, it was great to see you all and thank you so much for all the lovely presents. With about 30 kids at the birthday party, I was lucky enough to get lots and lots of wonderful presents, but mummy has only let me open a few and is letting me open the rest slowly.

Thanks also to all the parents and helpers that came along to make this a really special day. Mummy says that next time she lets a man in the garden with a tarantula and snakes she promises she will check he is licenced first!

Below are some photos of the day, if you have any really nice ones please email them to my mummy and she'll post them here to share.

Again thanks to all of you and see you soon,

Love Nuala x

P.S. this is the only birthday cake photo mummy had, so apologies for the quality!

Hedgehog thing

This is some variant of the hedghog. Mummy tells me they are not like the ones you get in England which are much more shy... this prickly little thing was very cute indeed!

Blue tongue lizard... this was pretty cool...

Mia giving it a good old squeeze...

Elia enjoying it crawl up her back...

Salamander taking a break in Jade's lap...

getting ready to run!

Is that what I think it is?

Obviously even Goatee Toni wasn't daft enough to let us touch a tarantula, but considering he had 30 kids under 5 on his hands, he was pretty brave to bring this out of the bag. I think the kids got the 'if it bites you it could kill you' warning... though Archibald in the last shot has his nose a bit too close for comfort!

Are thise bite marks on your hands, Toni?

American corn snake

The birthday girl gets brave... all the kids wanted to do this (look at my friend Rosie next to me- so unfair) but only a few of us got the chance. Handily enough I was the birthday girl.

Jack still brave while mummy Meaghan looks on proudly...

Small snake

So we had tortoise, lizard... next was a little snake. The funniest thing was us kids were like wow, this is cool... while the parents stood back and went... oh careful baby, don't touch it... ohhhh


Jack with his snake Tshirt on being very brave, while Nuala strokes the snake's head.

Giant Tortoise

This thing just walked around the garden while we fed it bit of carrot and pumpkin... pretty cool



My friend Rose being brave, are you sure these things don't bite?

4th Birthday Party

We moved to our new place in Stanley, but before we handed over the keys we thought we would have one last party in the garden of South Bay Palace. The garden has seen many a do, and we will be really sad to leave it. Still, the old place was never the same since the campions deserted us for life in Singapore!

Mummy had the great idea to have a chap called Goatee Toni do the entertainment. Daddy kept mumbling things like 'sounds like a weirdo perv... how much is Gary Glitter costing?' etc to mummy, but she was righly confident in her choice of birthday party mayhem control.

So Goatee Toni arrived with his nine different animals, and it was absolutely amazing to be able to feed and touch them. There was this lizard thing from Madagascar....