Week 212 and Week 124.5 - Charlotte's Birthday Reprise

Charlotte's birthday always falls around Easter - which is a spring break for TIS.  So Monday we had her school birthday party.  How lucky that Charlotte's birthday is near her buddy Maleah's.  This past Saturday I made a cookie cake (which Gwen had never seen before - I thought this was a worldwide phenomenon) and Gwen and Charlotte, Maleah, Chantal, and Sophia decorated it.  You forget that life is about the little things like this.  The cookie cake was a big hit too (and if you endeavor to make one of them at home - it takes 2 packages of the Betty Crocker cookie mix to fill a 12" pizza pan).  Speaking of pizza, I ordered a pizza to get an extra box at Pizza Hut on Sunday (and you would think I was asking to part the Red Sea or something - it was a colossal deal to get this extra pizza box ("Only this time!") - and I still paid 10 MOP for it).  But in the end is was worth it as Charlotte was thrilled with it - and it was a huge hit with Charlotte's class (many kids asked for seconds or thirds)!  Charlotte was so cute with this cake in her class - she was definitely being teacher like and was super happy to have me there to help her celebrate - it totally made my day!

Sunday we went to dim sum with Ardyth, Chris and Liam and then spent the afternoon at Hac Sa (in Coloane).  It was spontaneous and fun - the kids played outside in the playground and we ate at Norman's later.  This was a no nap day and we really paid the price for it by 7PM as both girls were SO grumpy.  But it was fun just to be relaxed and outside - we saw Sophia's teacher at Norman's - we should do this more and not be slaves to the naps (all the time anyway).

Other cute things - Charlotte calls Sophia "Soph" and Sophia calls her night time diapers "hull ups" (somehow the p is omitted).

The girls got these from Grandpa - and Char reminds me of Katy Perry in the Last Friday Night video wearing them:

We also got Frozen - which Sophia loves (and Charlotte doesn't seem to have the attention span for).  Here is Sophia watching in her jammies:

Cake decorating:

Pre decorating:

Post decorating (with new icing on the names):

Fun pictures taken by the character meet and greet:

I do occasionally appear on the blog - here with the girls:

Coloane Play:

Love her Three Musketeer hair here:

This was the end of the clean dresses - Charlotte's school mate Mariana graciously gave the girls an ice cream bar:

Dinosaur fun:

Char loves these Whirlydoos:

There is a lot of pointing going on these days:

Charlotte and Maleah's party!

Jenni and Char - so cute!

Autumn, Char and Jenni:

Maleah, Char and Jenni:

Cookie Cake!

Mariana is in this picture:

Our attempt at a moms and daughters shot:

Miss Dizon and Miss Sandra and the birthday girls:

Candles!