Birthdays:

Maddie's 9th!

Simon's 6th!

Maddie's:

 

celebrated on the 22nd--by a visit to Chuck E Cheese 

where the kids amassed a huge number of tickets playing the arcade games

that Sam fed into a machine which gave out a receipt for some kind of (very) small gift at the end.

 

Then the making of a minty-chocolatey cake which was yummy.

And, finally--the celebration!

And, on the other side of the world, our Simon celebrated his 6th birthday four days earlier (well--three days earlier in their time) .

 

a few toys

 

and a birthday lunch.

 

Green?  Maybe because it was St. Patrick's Day here. 

Congrats to my getting-older grand kids!