As I wrangled two toddlers in the grocery store line and some well-meaning person would say, “Cherish these moments, they go by so fast”, I would smile but held my tongue so I didn’t say, “You know, I kind of want these days to be over!” Now, they are 5. F-I-V-E and I get it.
Do you know how close five is to ten?!?
We’ve had a whole lot of celebrating around here. Five only comes once.
We were keeping a family on the way through, from Addis to their home, 3-4 hours east of us a few days before the girls birthday. So, in the spirit of Third Culture Kids celebrating each moment, we did an early birthday.
Decorating cupcakes and the kitchen
Licking out the frosting dishes. We celebrating three birthdays, (our girls and their littlest).
The weekend before, we had a house full as we celebrated a friend’s 40th birthday and Jon’s birthday and the girls were first introduced to trick candles. This is about the 5th go-around, the perfect reason not to eat cake after a child has blown out the candles.
After the party, they left us the trick candles...
Back to the girls’ birthday...
Our power was out and came on just long enough for me to get the cakes baked…Bur the requested calzone…that is another story which I shall not weep about here. I really, really was wishing for anywhere with take-out.
But thank goodness the cakes were done! And we made our house into a “fancy” restaurant because everything is fancy with candlelight.
Five was such a fun age for trick candles. Funny, every time!
When you are five, you can cut your own cake.
Now, the best birthday gift of all, Jon’s parents are coming. Here. We will also be able to do Thanksgiving together as well as our third party and pull those little stubs of trick candles out for one last hurrah.
3 comments:
Thanks for the good descriptions and pictures of all the birthday celebrating! Looks like so much fun!
Love this. Happy birthday j & a!!
Fun! Love the trick candles. Seem like a lot more fun for a kid than an adult. :)
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