As much as I love my children, their birthday parties must be my least favourite yearly events. Lisi's 6th proved to be no different, making her a very happy girl indeed, and leaving me falling into bed at 8.30.
I am no great baker, but each year I go and get all ambitious. I had seen these on a blog and got the stupid idea of trying to make them myself.
not bad I guess, but what exactly is wrong with a Victoria sponge? They taste a lot better too.
I managed to stick with the one guest per year rule, Lisi invited 6 friends. They managed to create mayhem within 30 seconds of arriving.
oh, but helium balloons and huge pink teddy bears = happy, happy birthday girl. My masterpiece managed to provoke some interest
I managed to herd them to the table to do something constructive. German has the very handy verb "basteln" meaning to partake in arts and crafts. Please find me a handy English translation, until I have it I'm just going to use the German word. We basteled some boxes, painting and decorating them.
Norah and her motley crew of younger siblings turned up, the obligatory happy birthday was sung (in 4 languages: English, German, Italian and Mandarin. Such genius children we have ;-) )
Cake was looked at, but barely eaten. And then they went home. Another year survived!
the aftermath
The next day was Lisi's proper birthday, and we got to do it all over again. Thankfully on a rather smaller scale.
I'm going to let Gerti do Norah's in February.
the giant pink teddy is something.
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OMG those ice cream cone pops look incredible - well done - such cute photos too!
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