A Seventh Birthday Pool Party
We celebrated Louka's 7th birthday in our usual way this year with a pool party. It's an obvious choice for a birthday in Cyprus at the end of August. He was so excited in the lead up to the day, it always seems to him that his birthdays take a long time to come round, being that he is only 7 of course, and the fact it's later in the year than Leo's. This year, as the youngest of the group is now 6 it was much better knowing that they can all swim very well. Still quite stressful keeping an eye on 6 crazy loud kids (plus a crazy adult!) with a load of inflatables in the pool but between 5 adults in and out the pool too it was easily doable. We made water balloons for the first time which was a huge success, they were surprisingly hard to break too. I'd always thought they broke so easily and took a long time to fill but that was before I'd discovered the packs with the attachment to go on a hose pipe! ...
