A birthday, and an awards ceremony

Isabel enjoyed her birthday, as did Lily. Lily seemed to enjoy Isabel's presents as much as Isable did. However, Lily came down with a vomitting bug so Isabel's party had to be cancelled. Anne's going to re-arrange it for next week. It's mainly for Lily's beneift, since Isabel won't care and Lils will be upset if Isabel doesn't have a cake with candles.

 

 

 

On Saturday, Lily got her bronze medal at her dance class. This is entirely pointless in some ways. The children 'earn' their medals by attending a certain number of times. They're not assessed on anything. You get a sticker each week and when you've collected 12 stickers (on sticker charts you have to buy) you get a medal. I'm not entirely cynical about it since it acts as an encouragement and Lily was really pleased with her presentation and having people clapping her. For almost the entire first year she went to this class we just disposed of the weekly stickers after Lily had worn them for a bit. If we'd got the sticker charts from the off Lily would probably be on her platinum medal by now. (I don't know if there is a platinum medal.)