Ailsa turns five shindig

Ailsa had her B-day party today, even though tomorrow on her birthday. She was only allowed to invite 5 kids, and so invited her table from school - some extras turned up. Sharon as always was the Uber-artistic parent. Ailsa wanted to go with the astronaut theme - so Sharon made this artful constellation of cakes n cookies- Crafty spaceship workshop got under way....
I pretended I knew something about 5 year olds birthday games - musical planets-aka musical chairs, musical astronauts aka musical statues to the tune of walking on the moon by the Police...some game with straws and polo mints that the kids seemed to get in to - those five year olds just roll with suggestions! Then to burn off some of those cake carbs we did some retro 70s disco dancing The bad side...after a gallant display Scotland were beat by Italy 2-1 in Glasgow tonight - despite the weather being in Scotland's favour...and now you think why did we bother beating France twice when we're out of the European championship? It's always good to be philosophical when things don't go how you were expecting...... (Is that something like philosophy is the opium of the masses?) anyway Aubrey, my father-in-law, reminded me of this great site that goes into the whole philosophy of football (Soccer to the minority who live in N. America) or is it the football of philosophy? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrShK-NVMIU). Ailsa and Heather seemed to have had a good time today, but I'm not sure we can keep this up 3 times a year for the next ?12 years/
John