Five

We recently had a significant birthday in our house (every birthday is significant when you're a kid, right?!).  Our Holly turned 5!!

It was so much fun celebrating with her.  We decorated the house the night before, and gave her some presents in the morning.

We took some cupcakes to Junior Jivers (the music/dance program we go to on a Friday).

After Junior Jivers a friend looked after Claudia so Holly and I could go to a cafe for lunch together.

That night I let her choose what she wanted for dinner.  She chose lasagne (a girl after Stefan's own heart!).  I also let her choose a drink (pink fizzy).  She had such a lovely day and felt so special.  And there was only a very tiny bit of "it's my birthday so I'll cry if I want to" behaviour. :)

We had her party the next day, and I'll post the photos from that in another post, but here's a few of us getting ready for the party.

Making teacup biscuits

Stefan doing his usual wonderful job of making the cake