My Kids Rock

Annie – Happy Birthday Party

Officially I have THE BEST CHILDREN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE! Seriously they are better than any other child that has gone before, is now or ever will be

Alright, alright, I might be exaggerating a little but they were awesome on Monday, really, really wonderful.

Just before bedtime last night Heidi was getting tired and starting to cry, so I picked her up and carried her to the bedroom, she took one look at her bed and said “Bed! I like bed.” Put the emphasis in because she said it just like that. She likes bed :: happy dancing ::, sure she might wake up in the middle of the night and want to party for several hours but right there and then she likes bed.

I once read the difference between children and adults is that children don’t want to go to bed ever, whilst adults are always wanting to sleep. You are apparently meant to know you have crossed the line into adulthood when you actually enjoy going to bed. How teenagers fit into this theory I’m not sure.

I pulled out my mothers day present from the top of our bedroom cupboard (yeah I know where it was hidden). It got forgotten on Mothers Day. Gave it to Annie and told her what had happened, so she solemnly handed it back to me and said “happy mothers day”. Then we went and opened it up, a heart shaped fondue set. The girls and I spent a lovely half hour melting chocolate and dipping in marshmallows. Before we started I was careful to tell the girls the candle and melted chocolate would be hot. Each time we dipped a marshmallow Heidi would say “careful hot”, our little Occupational Health and Safety Officer. And when I blew out the candle Heidi started singing “Happy Birthday to you”

Annie then spent the rest of the afternoon making me gifts, she decorated a box that was in the recycling, scrunched up some paper to make me a pillow, drew me a really lovely handbag – if it was a real bag I’d use it for sure. Lots and lots of love and attention, which I think is just the best mothers day gift. While we were getting ready for bed Annie very solemnly told me to be careful of my scrunchy paper pillow because the crinkles were prickly and I might hurt myself. Awww.

The girls played really well together for most of the day. And I have video proof – see!

They are playing with their Elefun toy which we put new batteries in for the party, just incase we needed more party games. It is amazing how you can breath new life into a toy by hiding it away for a few months.

Now some pictures from the party, I’m going with thumbnail size because there are so many.

I made Naomi’s German Streusel Cake but instead of using pureed apples I used my apple butter, (Hmmm that apple butter link has pictures but not the recipe which is here) it is really yummy. Try it out for yourselfs or just drool over the picture:

So I rocked the Streusel. Then I made the pink birthday cake and instead of using homebrand raspberry jelly I went for Airplane Pink Lemonade Jelly – which didn’t really work, the cake just had a slight pink tinge. And I couldn’t find the icing sugar to make the icing / frosting. So instead I melted pink marshmallows and poured that over the top of the birthday cake. Worked really well.

And here is the empty box from my fondue set – Annie turned it into a throne for S-Duck.

I watched two episodes of Stargate Atlantis today and one was Rodney In Spaaaaaace… well technically he’d come back to earth but still I love my Rodney-centric eps because it means lots and lots of the lovely FILFy David Hewlett . Took me 5 hours to watch those two episodes because I kept stopping to do stuff with / for the girls but in the time I was able to sit still for 10 minutes in a row I got a teeny tiny little bit of stitching done – no pictures though because I hope to get a little more stitching in during the evening.

I didn’t have to cook ALL DAY because we were able to feast on leftovers from the party. Feast is the right word too, I’m still so full I don’t think I’ll need to eat for the rest of the week, well unless chocolate appears in my vicinity, then all bets are off

One final photo – Heidi in “Cake, I like cake!”