It's Not a Secret

Friday night the week before last was special because the boys had dinner downstairs on the second floor with their cousins Soit-Jade and Yu-chi.The first thing they did was play with Aunty Suprana's drums!

All four kids had heaps of fun.

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Yu-chi played the drums very politely and didn't make us much noise as others.

Craig tried hard to keep a rhythm.

He concentrated quite hard at times.

But everyone had fun.






After the drums were put away Graham managed to lock himself in the front room. He could see everyone through a large interior window and wasn't at all interested in unlocking the door.

He was not traumatised in any way by the experience.

After dinner there was chocolate birthday cake!

Eating birthday cake is a very serious business for Craig.

It was Aunty Jessie's birthday. The only slight surprise was the number 42 on top of the cake when it arrived.

Aunty Jessie didn't mind having her age announced so publicly. Normally Aunty Jessie speaks Chinese to everyone but when Craig and Graham's Dad asked about the big numbers her response in English was simply, "It's not a secret."

Graham liked the cake quite a lot and wanted to say thank you. It should also be mentioned that Graham has recently spent a lot of time at home listening to a CD that features children's voicees singing Happy Birthday to You (in Chinese). So, Aunty Jessie can claim she is the first person to ever have Graham sing Happy Birthday for her.

There was still time for some more fun and games afterwards.

Graham seems to like getting into baskets.