Woodland animal cupcakes!
Owls, hedgehogs, bears, raccoons. The hedgehogs were the most popular. Because sprinkles.
And Aunt Kristen was there! Grandma was there, too, but somehow wasn’t in any of my pictures. My latest dithering efforts with the ice cream maker meant we had three kinds of sorbet: meyer lemon, blood orange, and kiwi. Blood orange was the most popular. Because blood.
And we didn’t have any birthday candles, so we just used regular candlesticks. Katie enjoyed this, but when it came time to blow them out, she opened her mouth and SCREAMED.
Yeah, this picture makes it look like her mouth is open in a state of gleeful surprise. No, she’s shrieking. This may be my favorite new method to blow out birthday candles.
” . . . biiiiirth-daaaay toooo youuuuuu–”
“EEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA!AIAIAIAIA!”
We gave her a doll for her birthday. Katie was thrilled enough that she spent a good 15 minutes at bedtime singing it a nonsense-sound lullaby. D’awwwww.
Eleanor also spent all of dinnertime creating “party stations” upstairs. There was a station for making paper flowers, one for a beanbag game, one for a puppet show, one for drawing. She used colored tape on the floor and hung handwritten signs to show where each activity was to take place. I’d have commended her more if she hadn’t used this project as an excuse to skip dinner (we were eating something she didn’t like).
But: this paper airplane. How can you stay mad at someone when they make this for their little sister’s birthday?
Casa Camisas 
Those cupcakes are adorable!