Join the party

Jag has been pretending she is Anastasia and it's her birthday all day today. We had a party this morning where she opened "gifts" which were items of hers that she wrapped in doll blankets and assigned to each of us to give to her. Just now she came begging for cake and ice-cream! I told her "later- when I am done doing dishes." But soon she came back begging again saying that all her guests were leaving! So I relented and thought "why not?" So I dished up slivers of leftover cake from Ethiopian Christmas, with a small amount of ice-cream on leftover party plates. Loaded them onto a crystal platter and even grabbed a birthday candle that was laying in the kitchen windowsill.

Jag and Denny began fighting over whose birthday it was. So I grabbed a second candle from the windowsill and stuck one in each slice of cake, lit them and began singing! They stopped fighting and sat at the table in surprise as I added both "Anastasia" and "Denny" to the song and allowed them to each blow out their own candle.

Honestly, that was kinda fun!
I think every day needs a party!