A Great Birthday

June 2, 2009

Even though her party isn’t officially until Saturday, I wanted to do a little something for Grace’s birthday.

She already knows that birthdays are special days, so I wanted to make hers memorable.

Donuts for breakfast. A treat to share with her friends at day care. A trip to a local farm to visit the cheekens (chickens), geeses (geese), kerkeys (turkeys), doodle dos (roosters), and gee hens (guinea hens). A special supper of hot dogs and French fries. Cake with candles and a couple of presents. Singing “Hacky birday to Gracie” at every possible opportunity.

If any of these were normal events, it wouldn’t have been such a special day.

I’m happy to say that Aunt Amanda joined us for most of the day, and we spent some nice time with Grandma and Pappy, too.

Birthday Presents

You already knew that Grace loves her People. That is a Little People birthday set.

Knowing that she’s really into pretend playing with normal objects, I also had a birthday cake present for her.

I didn’t get a nice picture of her with her new recorder. Remember recorders? They’re like little clarinets made of plastic, and they toot like whistles when you don’t yet understand how to make notes.

I have been holding on to these gifts since before Christmas. The Little People set was free with a certain dollar purchase at FisherPrice.com, so I tucked it into my gift box in the hall closet. I won a gift certificate for an online store months ago that I used to get some Melissa & Doug sets, including this Birthday Party set. I found the recorder in a clearance bin at the craft store. I think it was a buck or two.

Two dollars for all of these toys. What a joy to share with my baby (you know, the one who’s not a baby at all these days).

Birthday Cake

Grace loves purple. She will chose purple over any other color any time.

See that little drip of frosting on the right side? It makes me think of Mrs. Doubtfire every time I see it.

Because I’m not able to get around like I normally would, I asked Joe to pick up a white cake mix and a container of white frosting with sprinkles. He did.

I dyed them both purple. That was not as successful as I would have liked.

Neither Joe nor myself thought to buy any birthday candles, so we were (quietly) panicking at the last minute. We found this Elmo candle left over from last year, and Grace was none the wiser.

We sang, and Grace blew out the candle all by herself.

I didn’t think she’d be able to do it, but she did. Yet another example of how quickly my baby is growing up.

It took some prodding, but she finally stuck her fingers in the icing.

In attempting to dye the cake purple, I overbeat it into oblivion, and it tasted like plastic. It fell on itself, shrunk to half the size of the pan, and was generally terrible. Grace didn’t mind at all.

She went to bed more than an hour later than normal. We packed a lot of fun into this one quiet day.

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yen of Heavenly Delight said:

happy birthday to your girL.
i loved the purple cake!
i’m playing as well, c u there

# 3 June 2009 at 2:27 pm

Julia said:

sounds like it was a really fun day!

# 3 June 2009 at 3:12 pm

pamela said:

looks like a great birthday party!!! love the cake

# 3 June 2009 at 3:52 pm

Jenna @ Newlyweds said:

Happy Birthday Grace, what a fabulous day you had planned for her mommy. Great job! She is a blessing.

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# 3 June 2009 at 4:13 pm

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how fun!! love the elmo cake!!

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# 3 June 2009 at 4:24 pm

Kim @ What's That Smell? said:

My daughter loves her “people” too! The cake looked cool!

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# 3 June 2009 at 4:35 pm

Muthering Heights said:

It sounds like it was such a special day for her!

# 3 June 2009 at 7:50 pm

Laura said:

Yay!! Happy birthday Pretty Girl!! Looks like she had a great day!

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# 3 June 2009 at 8:25 pm

Jenn @ The Coupon Coup said:

Oh what an absolutely PERFECT day for her!! It is the days like THIS that they remember!!

Happy WW…better late than never!!

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# 4 June 2009 at 8:13 am

Karen said:

Kids really don’t care about taste as long as they get a cake. You are such a good mom to make it purple!

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# 4 June 2009 at 10:19 pm

Melissa said:

Wow…looks like fun!!! I think I will come to your house on my birthday!!

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# 5 June 2009 at 8:19 am

cat said:

Happy Birthday Grace! I love that purple cake and frosting.

# 5 June 2009 at 8:45 am

Glenda said:

Home-made cakes are the best! Especially ones that are made with love.
Happy birthday Grace!

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# 5 June 2009 at 10:01 am

Pam said:

What a fun cake. Happy Birthday, Grace. She looks like is having a ball playing.

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# 5 June 2009 at 2:37 pm

carissa said:

You FORCED her to stick her fingers in the icing! How funny.. glad she likes purple, she’ll be sucked into the pink thing soon enough!

Cheers to your $2 birthday WOWSER!

# 5 June 2009 at 10:57 pm

Julia @ Hooked on Houses said:

Happy birthday to Grace! Love the purple cake. And $2 for all those toys? Fabulous!

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# 6 June 2009 at 3:10 pm

Kim from Canada said:

I love the purple cake and it looks great even it wasn’t as tasty as you would have liked – only the birthday girl’s opinion matters and it’s easy to see she loved it.

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