Grandma is here - and what GREAT timing - parties, recitals and hospital visits!

A few days after we got home Grandma arrived for a visit - Mount Notsosupercalifragilisticexpialidocious attempted to stop her - but no volcano is going to stop Grandma getting here.

I picked her up at the airport late on the Friday night and Havi was SO excited to see her that next morning, I think she may have made Mum light headed after the squeeze she gave her. We dragged the poor jet lagged woman off to swim class and story time, let her have a quick nap then it was birthday party time.

The Party Princess

Havi and Selin had a joint 4th birthday party at Little Gym and it was SO much fun - and so easy! We just turned up with kids, food and cake and they did the rest. The kids played on the jumping track and with the parachute and had a cool game of 'smash the cheese' before digging in to snacks and cupcakes (thanks to Rebecca for the yummy cupcakes).

It was still one week until Havi's actual birthday... but Havi asked quite a few times if all her friends were coming to her house on her birthday 'just like my three year old birthday' and couldn't quite grasp the early birthday party concept!

To continue Grandma's busy first weekend here, Sunday was Havi's first ballet recital. It was Sleeping Beauty and was held at a proper theatre down town. Big stuff for a little girl. On the Friday before they'd had their rehearsal and I snapped this adorable picture of all the Little Pink Fairies together.

Just as we were about to leave for the recital we noticed something was up with Peter's stingray'd leg. His whole legs was red and bumpy... not good. So Havi didn't have both her parents missing from the recital Rebecca took Peter to the urgent care and we headed off down to the theatre.

Havi did such a GREAT job. She randomly started waving in the middle of their two minute little piece, which was so cute as I don't even know who she was waving at. Unfortunately, right before she went on stage we got a call from Rebecca, Peter was heading to the ER :-( As soon as Havi was finished I grabbed her from back stage and Grandma and Auntie Brooke took her out to eat while I headed off to the hospital.

So as not to steal this post - head on over HERE for the hospital details!

Thank you so much to Brooke, Kelly, Rob and Ian for coming to watch and for the lovely roses (seeing Ian give them to her with a mini hug was too cute) - it meant a lot to have them all there to watch.

This is the only picture I managed to get with the 'no flash' rule - but we do get a DVD of the whole show and I'll make a link of her little bit once I have it.