Birthday boy

Joshua's 5th birthday party today. We went for the full works, for the first time. It went quite well actually - we had pass-the-parcel, a treasure hunt, craft, games, food, stories. I had great fun - I think some of the kids enjoyed it too!Here are a few piccies to give you a flavour - guess the theme... The cake is supposed to be Thunderbird Island. I wasn't very pleased with the result but Josh thought it was great, so that's what counts. It's so much harder to make novelty cakes when you can't buy swiss rolls, liquorice allsorts, matchmakers etc.. Still it tasted nice, which I wasn't expecting with all the green icing.

We took the stabilisers of Joshua's bike today, but he was very cross when he couldn't ride it immediately. He loves going on bike rides with mummy. We can ride on the roads here because there aren't many cars, you just have to watch out for all the pot holes. I've also got a baby seat for Caleb which he really likes. We just have to buy another adult bike and teach Bethany to ride and then we can go on family bike rides.

Josh is still loving school and Bethany has been much happier the last two weeks. She has made a Tanzanian friend called Abida which seems to help.

We are having power cuts almost every other day at the moment. So that's why we're not always replying to e-mails very quickly. When we have power, internet connection and time we will get back to you.