Finally a Birthday

    With our uncharacteristic weather last week, Little Bigfoot had to postpone celebrating her birthday with her friend. Every year, she is given the choice of how she would like to celebrate with her friends. She has come to the realization, that she really prefers to interact with her friends on a one-on-one basis. Less confusion and easier to keep up with. We had been planning since Christmas for her friend to sleep over the weekend of 14 January, but with the snow being forecast for that afternoon, we decided it was best to postpone the plans a week. Then we were under 18" of snow the next weekend, so it definitely wasn't happening then. Now after a week of typical Seattle winter weather, most of the snow is gone and we were able to go forward with the 'party'.

  I picked the girls up from school and they proceeded with the fun. This involved a lot of giggling, playing with Littlest Petshop toys (of which LBF has 3 large Rubbermaid totes full of) and general fun. I had picked up Papa Murphy's pizzas earlier in the day for dinner and crumb-coated the cake (which was a lemon pound cake with lemon pudding filling, neither gluten-free, dairy or egg free, as those aren't an issue for the kids). It had earlier been decided that DragonNight would do the artwork for the cake, as only she could properly depict LBF's vision of a wolf silhouetted by the moon. It was later decided that she would also do the actual decorating. This would be her second cake decorating adventure. I think she did an outstanding job. I really love how their idea of ringing the moon with the candles, really highlighted the whole cake and brought the image to life.

    We will later go to my mother-in-law's house for another postponed birthday celebration (both LBF and my MIL's). I guess we could say that this year is the year of the never-ending birthdays. Hopefully the rest of the birthdays this year will happen more smoothly, since they are all summer season ones. It is the year with three Friday the 13ths in it, so the luck should fall into place at some point.