Because Viva & Jake celebrated their birthday on a Saturday this year, I thought it made good sense to start off the morning with the cake & icecream & presents, and then go from there. Why make 3 year olds wait all day for the fun part if they don't have to, right?!
Viva wanted a pink cake, and Jake... well, Jake kept changing his mind. Sometimes he wanted a brown, a blue, a red, a blue and red, a pink, a black... he just couldn't decide. The day before the birthday he seemed pretty settled on black though. So I decided to give it a go.
Unfortunately... black is hard! I bought black powder, and started with a dark chocolate cake base, but was leery after I read the label on the food coloring that warned of permanent stain to teeth/skin if too much dye was used. So I tossed that plan, and decided to just go for dark brown. The 3 year old didn't seem to notice... or maybe he was distracted by the peanut butter cups on top of the cake? Either way it worked!
We enjoyed our cake for breakfast, and then moved on to presents. Then, of course, time was spent playing with the new presents! After nap time we took the kids out to see Toy Story 3 - our first family movie with the 5 of us! Popcorn and candy galore, of course. The kids were all VERY good and enjoyed it, it was a fun way to end the evening!
3 monkeys:
The birthday girl (in her new birthday dress, isn't she cute?! too bad it wasn't WARM so she could go with one of the warm weather models... ah well!):
P.S. - more pictures to come when the other 2 camera cards get uploaded!
I can't believe Viva & Jake are 3. Or maybe I can. Sometimes they certainly act like 3 year olds.... :-) However they act, of course, we are so lucky to have such precious children to celebrate!
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