Birthday

Well, our little baby is two... She managed to have a bit of a birthday week in the end too! We had a party for her at home last weekend (Saturday 7th) with a mixture of Teenies (daycare) and Mainly Music friends, and family/almost-family in attendance. I put 'no presents required' on the invitation, but everyone brought presents anyway and Ember did have a lovely time opening them. She was a bit shy at first, but once I put the food out she was much better and all the kids seemed to have a good time. I'd planned to do some songs and stories with them all, but they were happy playing with various toys, eating etc so I didn't bother! The two hours went really fast in the end.

Monday was her Mainly Music birthday - they sang to her and she got a branded cup. Then Tuesday was her actual birthday, so although we kept it low key, she and I made a 5 minute chocolate mug cake and we put the candle back in it and sang to her again. Then Thursday was her first day back at Teenies since her birthday, so I made cupcakes for her to take in and they sang Happy Birthday again! Unfortunately she grabbed the candle wick just after blowing it out, and got a small burn. When I came to pick her up, she told me "Hot happy birthday!".

So all in all she did pretty well out of turning two. I'm not sure how much she understood about what was going on, but she certainly liked the presents and lollies. I had grand plans to make an Iggle Piggle cake (if you don't know, google it!) but in the end I stole Iggle and Upsy Daisy plastic bath toys from Pen (Isla really I suppose) and plonked them on top of the cake instead. I think it was just as effective, and far less stressful.

I'll post some photos in the next post...