Pool Playdate

So Emma my dear dear friends sent out a mail and invited all the Tuesday mums to my place for a playdate!!! No worries except 1. Cliffs mum/aunt/uncle arrive next day and 2. We have white carpet throughout!!! Despite that fact we pulled it off with the stain remover making a guest appearance only twice!!! 23 adults and 15 kids!!! I had used a watering can to fill the paddling pool up with some semi warm water (took forever) as last time Cliff just did cold and Cs lips turned blue!!! The terrace is a sun trap and even though a cloudy day it was warm out there. I did ask everyone to bring shoes for the pool as last time it was oops lets try and avoid kids from smashing their heads open!!! Everyone turned up pretty much and C spent about 2 hours in the water playing lovely with Ashling, Zoe and of course Ellie. Melanie turned up with Jason and Carter fresh from the delivery suite with baby Emerson who was very cute. Despite the madness of the afternoon it was nice to see the group of friends I have made since arriving here under one roof having a lovely time. When Cliff got home he took C off on her trike for half an hour as pre bed routine now involves picking as many flowers from the apartments across the roads bushes as she can get away with and then throwing them down in the genkan for mommy on her return.

Wednesday Cliff was really ick so as a family we went over to Yuto clinic where C had her 18 month check ( screamed her head off even about just taking her clothes off for height and weight!) and cliff got 50,000 types of pills for asthma, cold, ear infection etc. We then had a quick lunch at La Boheme but C was very tired and grumpy after the doctors so relief to get he into bed. Cecelia turned up THANK GOD after the mess of the day before, and Cliff offered to take C to music together so i could go pick up tickets for Kyoto from Tennozu isle JTB for his mum, aunt and uncle. They arrived around 5 knackered and Cliff kindly failed to tell me his aunt and uncle speak NO ENGLISH and my German is really really bad so it was a bit of a struggle thru Thai Curry but they feel into bed as they had 5am start for Kyoto the next morning. Cliff was doing a Darthvadar special so I made him sleep on the sofa!!! C and I stayed home as she had school and traipsing her around Kyoto tourist attractions at top speed not my idea of relaxing!!!

Today Emma and I did nice Starbar and then a quick nose around Muji and Uniqlo!!! Looking out for a funky pair of wellies and nice rain mac!!! Haven't found THE ONES yet!!!