Video Footage of Sarah

Click on the Blue Area Below to see Pictures of Sarah's Birthday and Her Mother's Day Celebration

In order to view the attached video footage doubl click on the blue area above. This will take you to the photobucket website where you will once again see the same image in a smaller version. Double click again and then it should begin streaming. When the video starts streaming put the player on pause until streaming has finished and the video should play smoothly.

Unfortunately we have not been able to upload both performances onto this one post so in a week I will upload the second half - Los Ratoncitos (The Little Mice)

Sarah's Busy Weekend

Saturday past was Sarah's third birthday. We had been planning to keep things pretty low profile this year after our experience of having a party in school last year. Considering her birthday fell on a Saturday we thought it would work fine and we would not get any pressure from teachers to have a party in school - we had not accounted for Sarah though! About a week and a half before her birthday Sarah told us she was going to have a big party in school just like last year so we quickly got on with the plans!

Our weekend began with a party (which of course we had to be present at) on Friday in school. There was the traditdional handing over of presents, food, music and dancing. Sarah was so excited by the whole event at times we thought we were going to have to calm her down! In the afternoon she was so excited it was difficult to get her settled for her afternoon nap.

On Saturday morning Sarah got up and was allowed to open her presents. She had already received her bicyclce from her aunts and granny and granda and was almost knocked off her feet when she walked into her playroom to see the Winnie the Pooh stickers which her grandma and grandpa had bought stuck to the wall. What a surprise! Mummy and Daddy had obviously been up late the previous night sticking the wall stickers on. After breakfast we started to prepare for another party. Trevor, Christine, Rebecca and Andrew had been invited for a small party with more music, cake and lots of excitement.

As Sunday was Mother's Day in Peru all the kids in the school had been practising for a special event for Mothers on the Saturday afternoon. Sarah was taking part in two pieces (see above video), one she was required to wear traditional Peruvian custume and do a traditional dance and the second piece which lasted a total of nine minutes involved her dressing up with her classmates as naughty mice! She marched, danced, walked, jumped and ran for the whole time and then if that was not enough she danced to all the pieces by the other children in the older class too. Needless to say she slept really well on Saturday night.

With Sunday being Mother's Day the weekend would not have been complete without another event. The church in Ite decided to put on a special event to celebrate Mother's Day, although it was a little more tame it certainly finished off a very busy weekend for Sarah.