So we spent the day at home today as we were trying to have Edzèa get over her cold before her “way too big” birthday party on Saturday.

Key points from today. When Tim and I went into her room at 7am to sing “Happy Birthday” to her, she asked: where’s my cake? My Cake? See it. I want to see it.

She repeated this over and over again until she was distracted by her pile of presents on the dining room table and her anticipation of waffles for breakfast.

She received: a pair of Flower gumboots from Bumpa, she will be receiving a tricycle from Grandma & Grandpa (pending the re-opening of the channel on the Mackenzie River), lots of cute clothes from Bumpa & Nana as well as a pile of Dr.Seuss books and two great puzzles. Mom & Dad gave her an easel with a chalkboard on one side, a bubble machine, sunglasses and the big hit of the day: soft pom pom balls which she played with for the majority of the day.

Since she asked for a cake and I wasn’t planning on having one for her thinking she wouldn’t notice…(oops…I forget who my daughter is)-I ended up getting a cake and putting a #2 candle on it. We brought it in and she was happy but commented on two things afterwards…

“Where are my kids?” and looked around kind of forlornly. We tried to explain that all of her “kids” would be coming on Saturday. And then she commented “1 candle”. She knew she should have had two. Who knew????

Anyways, this is a quick and dirty post just to mark down the fun moments.

Oh, also, when she and Nana were playing for a while and Nana commented on her pretty new skirt. She replied” It’s from the Sally Ann.”

Which it wasn’t!!! I actually bought this outfit new for a change but we got a good laugh out of it.