Birthday Season

April marks the start of "Birthday Season" in our household. This commences with our youngest's on 30th April and followed by Aunty P, best friend L, Granny (my mum), Mr W, ME!!!, godson's dad, godson, best friend's son, neice, brother, best friend S, sister-in-law    - which takes us through to mid-July, phew! At this time of year, I seem to spend most of my time on Moonpig (a life-saver, as they even post the card for you) or at the post office. 

And soon, there will be a new addition to Birthday Season - official due date for baby #3 is June 14th, so it should definitely be with us by end of June, even if I go overdue!

The birthday bunting is up 

(see the post here)

Here are some pics of Birthday Season so far: 

Birthday morning present opening in Mummy & Daddy's bed

Little G with his pile of brownies birthday cake.

G's favourite birthday card from Mummy & Daddy - he is still obsessed with all things superhero (see last year's post)

G's birthday party at a local soft-play - super-easy party this year, as all I had to do was make the cake - Batman-themed this year!

Making Daddy's birthday cake. He's a dab hand with the mixer - a future Great British Bake Off contender??

G's favourite bit of baking!

Can you tell which football team he supports??

Mr W blowing out his candle

MMMMMMMMmmmmmmm cakes!

Lots of "Top-hat" cakes for Mr W to take to work - some had lemon curd under the buttercream, and some had raspberry jam. I had to sample one or four to make sure they were suitable for public consumption!

My baby is 3 today!

I can't believe it! Where did the time go? He's 3 already!

I did it - I got the bunting finished in time!



His big brother and I had to wake him this morning (isn't it typical that on a morning when you want them to be awake early they decide to sleep in!), so we sang a round of Happy Birthday to wake him up. His brother was convinced that he looked bigger today now that he is 3!



Big brother taking charge of the present opening!


After school drop-off, we headed home to make a birthday cake.


Eating the ingredients. Who knew he liked dark chocolate?



Uh oh! He's breaking the eggs for me. There may be a few crunchy bits in this cake!



Oops! The egg squirted!



Mmmmmm, stir it all up

We have a few friends coming over for a birthday tea after school today, so hopefully they will enjoy his creation - a giant brownie cake!


Here it is, the finished cake

And here is his birthday present from us - a lovely cheapo, plastic playhouse to add to all the other plastic toys littered around the garden - and he loves it!

The sun came out later on when his friends arrived, and they all had a wail of a time in the garden before tea.

We had to do a few rounds of candle-blowing until everyone had had a go, and the cake was well and truly covered in spit!

I think our little man enjoyed his day :)

Latest creation

Hoping to get it finished in time for little one's 3rd birthday next week.

Happy Birthday bunting. Just waiting for some red bias binding to arrive from eBay to finish it.

I'm quite pleased with the zigzagging of the felt letters onto the flags, as this is the first time I've ever done any zigzagging & it was pretty tricky going around the letters!

I'm pretty chuffed with how narrow I got my hemming too!