We had a fun family dinner and party to celebrate this dynamic duo on the Sunday between their birthdays. Born 2 years and 6 days apart, by some ultrasound date calculations, they shared the same due date. (Spence was a few days early, and Em was induced the day after her official due date.) April is birthday month at our house, and while that means we party all month long, it also means that there is cause for some collaboration/consolidation so things don't get too out of hand.
Sneaky, Seven-year-old Spencer kept blowing out his candle while we sang.
Five-year-old Emma had donned her birthday princess crown and was very poised, waiting for the right moment to arrive before she made her birthday wish.
The kids were very excited about the bounty of presents they received from doting family members. (Thank you, all!)
This is one of my favorite pictures of the day. Emma received a copy of the Book of Mormon because she had misplaced her other one. She was thrilled! Emma is not one to shy away from books containing words she cannot yet decode, and I love that this book is important to her.
(Slipping special moments in here as they occur to me. Each night Emma uses her imagination, she tells me, to read to her imaginary class. She plays the role of teacher and, sitting in her bed, "reads" aloud to her "class" from the pile of books she keeps at the foot of her bed. She tells the stories with the pictures showing to the imaginary class so everyone can be sure to see the illustrations.)
While other birthday celebrations (family/friend parties mostly) may have their dates adjusted to fit the needs of our family calendar, there is one event that must occur on the morning of the actual birthday:
THE BIRTHDAY BREAKFAST!
This year, with Spencer being in 1st grade, that meant early rising for all of us so we could sneak some strawberries and cinnamon rolls with the birthday boy before he headed off to catch a 7:24 (on the dot) school bus. (Side note: the bus stop is on the same corner as the house, and Spence is quite consistent at leaving the house when the bus shows up. Amazingly, he has only missed the bus once and told me he sort of likes running for the bus each day. That would stress me out, but he's a more confident kid than I was, I think.)
When we arrived at his door, Spencer had already snuck out of bed, dressed, and crept back under the covers so as not to spoil the birthday breakfast arrival. Here he is holding his 7 candle.
Rinse and repeat for Emma's birthday breakfast. They both wanted poppable cinnamon rolls, strawberries with sugar on top, and eggs.
Emma with her 5 candle.
These are kiddos worth celebrating!
1 comment:
I love your birthday consolidation. We have to do the same thing in September. For Sarah and Emily I make one cake, cook it in 2 round pans like for a layer cake, and frost one layer for each girl so they each get their own cake but it is smaller. So far they have both been ok with this method. And by the time we roll (literally!) around to Elizabeth's birthday we are all so tired of cake we end up having fondue or some other non-cake treat.
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