Pippa's Party

One of Annabelle's little friends from daycare turned three recently and we went to her party. During the course of a conversation about which schools might be good in the area (*faints at the thought of child going to school*) (IN ADELAIDE!!?!).. we discovered that Miss Pippa and her family live two doors down and across the road from us. That's Adelaide for you, but more on all things Adelaide (ie., 1.5 degrees of separation) later...

So Miss Annabelle and Miss Pippa have been having lovely regular play-dates together on the weekends, and we're planning a Sunday bbq with the family this weekend. It's nice to be making friends with normal people. It has also been lovely for me to have another little girl in my house back-chatting me and demanding to be picked up and asking for chocolate, because it reassures me that my own child is right on track developmentally.

So here are some party pics of the "in" girl's group.

Annabelle and Ebony:

Annabelle having a very intense conversation with Pippa's dad, after all the other kids had finished their cake and gone back to playing.

The birthday girl.

My girl.

A bunch of blonde trouble.

I had no idea that cliquey girl's groups started in daycare. I thought I had until high school before I had to deal with that. Perhaps primary school. But nooo.. at the age of 2, these girls hold seats for each other, shoo away other children who try to get near them and chop and change friends regularly. Apparently, during the lead up to this occasion, Pippa (far left) told Lily (far right) more than once that she was not her friend anymore and was no longer invited to her party. Annabelle tells me that Ebby is her friend and she does love Ebby (Ebony is, in fact, her best friend) and Maddie is her friend too, but Mona is not her friend. Mona is Maddie's friend, you see? Gosh, it's complicated.