Wordless Wednesday

Happy Birthday

The best thing about birthdays is the cake and this year for my birthday Lola picked out one of my favourites.  It was chocolate cake, with chocolate mousse, and chocolate icing, topped with chocolate shavings.  It was perfect and it was delicious.

This is such a nice picture, but I sort of wish that Lola wasn't wearing pj's and Quinn had a shirt on that wasn't soaked with drool.

 Daddy and a tired Quinn. 

 Lola was so excited it was finally my birthday, she had been practicing singing Happy Birthday for weeks.

Thanks for a wonderful birthday family!

Bake Sale

 Lola's daycare had a bake sale to raise funds to renovate their rooftop play yard.  The treats that we made last year for the bake sale almost started a fight, so there was a lot of pressure to come up with something amazing again this year.  We decided to go with two types of cookies; a oatmeal cookie on a stick and a sandwich cookie.

 

It ended up being a full team project.  Lola helped make the dough and do the decorating.  I was the one muscle behind the operation and was the one sweating over the oven in the kitchen.  Quinn's contribution was that he was happily playing in the backyard with Dad and Lola, allowing me to bake.

 Darcy was the packaging consultant and made us a logo and fancy labels.

In the end they turned out amazing and all of our items sold quickly making us the bake sale winner (again!).

Last Ballet Class

 Lola had her last ballet class until the fall.  Thankfully there was no official recital, just a performance since only one other student was there.  There had been a man hunt in the area that day and the police had shut down the schools, clearly the teacher, myself and Sabine's nanny were the only people who had not heard about it and still ventured out to the final ballet class.

 Regardless there was no way that we would have missed this class, Lola loves it too much.

 Here is Lola doing her butterfly dance.  She did really well this session and I am amazed at how much she has learned.

But, for now we will put away our ballet shoes and tutu's and pull out the swim suits and flip flops.  See you in the fall Miss Sarah.