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Partay!

Posted on June 29, 2009

Yes­ter­day we had a bit of a party for Squidge– a BBQ/Pool party.  After weeks and weeks of rain yes­ter­day looked like it was going to turn out to be a gor­geous day.  We here at Casa da Vavo held our breath as we got organized

I spent the night before bak­ing and dec­o­rat­ing her Win­nie the Witch inspired birth­day cake.  I wanted it to be ready for when she woke up in the morn­ing.  When she noticed it she gave a great gasp.  I told her it was her Win­nie the Witch** birth­day cake and she informed me it wasn’t tall* enough!  Aaaah well I just told her that Win­nie is very big and she is only a lit­tle girl so her cake is lit­tle girl sized.  She was happy with this explanation.

Squidge had a fan­tas­tic time and wants to have another birth­day party tomorrow.

*In the book Win­nie con­jures up a cake that is 8 lay­ers– black for­est, orange, gin­ger sponge, straw­berry short­cake, cheese­cake, rain­bow, fruit cake and choco­late.  Need­less to say I wasn’t about to make a cake that big but I think I got the essence of it.

**If you’ve never read any of the Win­nie the Witch books you NEED to go and read them this.very.second!!  The books are writ­ten by Valerie Thomas and illus­trated by Korky Paul***.  I absolutely love Paul’s illus­tra­tions and have pur­chased books just because he is the illus­tra­tor.  I will say that the combo of Thomas and Paul is my favorite at the moment.  I’m look­ing for­ward to read­ing more books illus­trated by Korky Paul.

*** Dear Mr Paul, I wouldn’t turn down an orig­i­nal illustration.

Happy Birthday Esme Inês

Posted on June 25, 2009

Today Esme aka Squidge turned 3 today.   I love her more than words.  She’s a fire­cracker.  She makes me laugh and cry at the same time.  I don’t know what I did before she entered my world.

Happy birth­day baby! (this is where she would tell me that she is NOT a baby)

Joy

Posted on June 23, 2009

To say that my mother is happy to have us around would be an understatement.

On Fri­day we picked up some piz­zas and headed out to my sister’s house– dog and all.  It was loads of fun.  While I was out tak­ing pho­tos of my niece my mother was doing this.

After my mom spent some time jump­ing around we had to hose down the tram­po­line.  Eerm can we say weak bladder?

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