Pebbles & Bam Bam Party Hard

My 'Mummy Moment' for the week was seeing my little man celebrating his 2nd birthday at his party on Saturday! He and his cousin Ellie are only 2 weeks apart so Dionne and I decided to have a combined party and go with a "Flinstones" theme, just go we could dress the children up as "Pebbles and Bam Bam". Because they are actually Pebbles and Bam Bam... as you can see in the photos!

So, instead of heaps of writing... I'm going to show you how the party went with photos and a few captions! 

This was the sign on the front door, welcoming our guests!

Meet Pebbles and Bam Bam! (I told you!)

Instead of having heaps of party food that goes to waste and in
keeping with the stone age theme, we gave each of the children
a "Snack Stash" from the "Bedrock Cafe". Each bag had the
children's name it, and they all thought it was pretty special to
open their own snack present!

We tried to have food that was Stone age(ish) if there is such a word!

The children got to put their bommy-knockers to good use on
our styling pinata... we left it a bit late to finish properly! ha ha.
Had a busy week of shows... the life of a Polkadot! ;o)

We did some "Rock Painting" and Ashton actually painted!
The children really loved this activity!

Each of the children were able to take their rock home to put
in their gardens.

Miss Ellie showing off her work!

Time for a bit of cake! Loveling made my Aunty Dez!

The Flinstones and the Rubbles!

We played a bit of "Duck Duck Goose" but kept to the theme of
the party by changing it to "Dino Dino, Russ!" short for "Dinosaur and Walrus!"

All of the crazy parents trying to get the children to look at
the camera and smile all at the same time... this was no set up!

It worked!

Betty, Bam Bam, Pebbles and Wilma!

The Rubbles! And Ashton with his cars of course!

I know its a bit of a shocking photo, but it was the
only one I managed to get of him with his whole costume on!
Thanks to Grandma for doing such an excellent job on the costumes!

A Polkadotty Party

So I just got to experience another joy of being a Polkadotty Mum! We were invited up to our old play group as one of the boys was going to be celebrating his 3rd birthday. We have been meaning to go back and visit so we happily accepted the invite.

To our surprise. . . (mainly mine), it turned out to be a full blown Polkadots Party! All the songs they sung were Polkadots songs, all the decorations were pictures of The Polkadots, and after nibbles everyone continued to watch The Polkadots on DVD!

I was a little taken back with the whole situation. Blown away that someone had thought to have this as a theme for a party, and also that my picture was on the wall! bahahaha! To everyone else it was nothing. . . There are still a lot of things I am getting used to with all this show biz stuff! Ashton thought nothing of it! Ha ha.

Farewell to our Allie

Over this past year we were very lucky to have Allie become a part of our Polkadot family as our extra hands to help us with watching the children while were doing all things Polkadotty. Since Allie came to us from California, she would only be with us for a year. Well the year came and went so quickly and it seemed all too soon that we were organising her farewell.

So, although we were all very sad to see Allie going, we wanted to make sure she left us with a smile on her face and remembering all of the wonderful things that make kiwi's kiwi. We threw her "The Ultimate Kiwi Farewell." We got dressed up in things that kiwi, we ate food that is considered kiwi and some even ended up watching the rugby during our kiwi party, cause apparently thats what kiwis do.

Our Waka Blonde - Allie, with our Buzzy Bee - Ashton!

Our staunch resident All Black - My hunk a spunk Husband!

Ashton with his extremely talented Grandma who just whipped up his costume that afternoon.

Our very own Miss New Zealand Princess - Ashton's Cousin Brookie

(These two thought that they should be in every photo!)

So kiwi - Me with the Polkadot Carly! bahahahah!

And me in dressed as Marmite

(My costume was lovingly painted by my ever so talented father... that afternoon!)

My cute little kiwi family!

Allie! We are going to miss you so much, thanks for being such a great Polkadot Nanny! We couldn't have got through this last year without you! California... you're lucky to have her back!