Birthday part 3 (cake and dinner)

On our summer vacation L fell in love with fish and chips. So that is what she had for her birthday dinner. We try to make most of our meals from scratch, but this one ended up being frozen premade stuff.  Thankfully I found organic fries and ketchup!

Her birthday cake came from the Festivels Family and Food book. We used the apple cake recipe and I just made up a maple cream frosting..  It took some thinking to figure out the apple cake recipe because I needed to double it, and it was written in the metric system so the flour  sugar, and butter were by weight. Luckily I had a mail scale.  Im not sure if I did it the right way...  but the cake turned out very rich and yummy, but from what I
remember it came out to 1 1/2 cups of sugar! and 1 1/2 sticks of butter!

Birthday part two (the birthday ring)

This was our first year using the birthday ring. I decided to have L pick out a new ornament every year to place on the ring. Some people buy them all at once and just move the ornaments to the center as the ring gets filled up with candles. The ring and ornaments came from Nova Naturals . I went ahead and picked a baby carrige to represent L's first year. L had no trouble deciding what she wanted for her second year She said very quickly, "oh mommmy I want the star" (it's really a sun) I think they even sell a actual star but this is the one she pointed to.

We lit the first candle and told her that when she was one years old she liked

• airplane
• sun, moon, and stars
• all animals
• her da and neigh
• hummus, mangos, apples, and peanut butter
• nature walks
• beach
•  jumping (pretending to be a bunny)
• making food for mommy and daddy in her pretend kitchen

we talked about what she disliked

• oatmeal
• spiders
• having her hair brushed
• naptime

Then we let the second candle and told her now she is two! and she got to blow them out

Wee's birthday part 1 (Birthday table/ crown and presents)

Little "Wee" is already 2! I can't believe how fast she has grown.

I set up her fall themed birthday table the night before, while she was asleep. She was so happy and surprised when she saw it the next morning

I bought this beautiful crown on Etsy from a shop called Bumblina. I was going to make her one, but just didn't have the time with all the other projects I was making for her birthday. I'm so glad I ended up purchasing one, because she did a much better/detailed job than I would have done

I let L open up one present in the morning. It was this moon and star dress that she immediately wanted to put on ( she currently loves anything  to do with moon, stars, and suns) The rest of the presents had to wait to be opened when daddy got home from work.


Here are some of the presents she received

Some homemade outfits made by me

• The polka dot skirt used to be a dress that her paternal grandma wore to her 50th high school reunion!
• a colorful skirt from some fabric Wee picked out during the summer
• a apple themed outfit to wear on our upcoming apple picking trip

• beeswax crayons
• I made a felted play mat for her little animals
• homemade felt cinnamon rolls
• a couple books

• some light up shoes and finger puppets from Ama and Pa Pa
• and a dolly from great grandma ( you can tell by the dirty nose she has already received lot of love

That's all for now. Stay tuned for the apple cake, dinner, and the birthday ring