A few major events have happened around here since my last
post. I’ll start with the first one:
Oliver’s third birthday, which was back in the first week of March. You’ll recall that in my last post Oliver
predicted that his baby brother would come out on his birthday party. Thankfully, he did not. But that story is for the next post.
First, we had a birthday with cake and M&Ms and balloons
and presents and games and friends.
Actually, there were two “cakes.”
With just the three of us, I didn’t want to make a whole cake for
Oliver’s birthday and then make another one for the party a few days later, so
I opted for brownies. Here is Oliver
blowing out the candles on his brownie cake:
You’ll notice that half of the brownie cake has M&Ms and
half does not. That’s because after a
little conversation Oliver and I had about cake and brownies I needed to be
prepared for anything. You see, Oliver
thinks that a proper birthday cake has M&Ms on it since that is what we put
on his cake when he turned two. He also
told me he didn’t want brownies, he wanted cake. So, I asked him if putting M&Ms on it
would make it cake. He said yes. But then I was worried that if I put M&Ms
on all of it he would decide he wanted brownies, not cake, and then those cheerful little dots all over the brownies would become a source of tears. So, I made both in the same pan. In the end, I ended up eating most of the
brownies without M&Ms, but that was fine with me since we had a very happy birthday boy.
We had a few of Oliver’s friends over to chase balloons in
the basement, play duck-duck-goose, decorate their own pizzas, and eat
cake. It was the perfect little party
for our little boy who likes to be social but gets a tad overwhelmed by big, busy groups.
And then we enjoyed a few more days as a family of three before there was another birthday.
And then we enjoyed a few more days as a family of three before there was another birthday.
