On Saturday she had a birthday party with 3 friends from school. They had mini-pizzas, cheesies, and broccoli for lunch and decorated cupcakes for dessert. There was one nose-head collision involving many tears and a little blood - but other than that, it went well! The friends were quite enamoured with her bunkbed. They did a lot of climbing up and down often without making use of the actual bunkbed ladder!
D had talked about having a pinata and playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey but when it came time to go to the store for supplies for those activities, she desisted. Her Papa and I had googled something like "DIY kids birthday party" a couple days beforehand. The only idea we followed up on was this:
We had scheduled a birthday lunch with extended family for the following day (Sunday) but a snowstorm forced us to cancel. We've rescheduled for this Sunday which means more party guests: her grandparents and uncle will have arrived for Christmas holidays. Hooray!
We had another snowstorm today. All the district schools were closed so D. experienced her first SNOWDAY. She was pleased to enjoy some hot chocolate at a local café:
She also came to my office for a while in the afternoon. She watched the Lorax and did some drawing at my desk while I finished up some work. I was thinking about her experiencing things that I experienced as a child: waking up excitedly wondering if school would be cancelled, for instance. I also remember my dad bringing my brother and I in to his office, which was also at a post-secondary institution. I've been thinking about this generally since we moved here because we often go to my grandparents' place for Sunday dinner, like my family did when I was D's age. There is something precious about these repetitions.
Sounds like you had a great birthday, Dorothee!
ReplyDeleteAnd a snow day too!!