*summer picnic in the back garden. sweet pea
around seven months here.
my sweet pea is six years old today!
i sent her to school with some brownie bites
and mini chocolate chip cookies (purchased)
and she got to open her pressies this morning.
she chose both, one a sort of bejeweled sticker
by numbers and another paper beading bracelets
or some such. i also bought her a nice stack of
books–which she always loves. =D
i bought a carvel ice cream cake for the family
and she chose THAI food tonight to celebrate.
(how many six year olds would choose thai? she
loves the vegetarian meat dish, ha!)
munchkin was in hysterics this morning despite
a “pity gift” i got for him. (again, books.) his sister
got two real presents from us and another thing
to open from grandma in england. and he tantrummed
all morning. of course, i was entirely unsympathetic.
NO MORE “pity gifts” for munchkin.
my mom says you always have to reason or talk
sense to the bublets. and i do. but munchkin is
so stubborn. (like i am.) he knows i’m right but
he’s very angry that i am and has to have a show
of rebelling against my rightness. ha!
it was munchkin’s big bday party year, in fact.
i decided a while back that the bubs would only
have “big birthdays” every 4 years. so when they
turn 4, 8, 12, 16…
simply because i find them very stressful and
also quite extravagant in this day and age.
it used to be you got a cake, some balloons and
a pin the tail on the donkey and that’s that.
how times have changed.
so she’s only celebrating with her immediate
family. and she is fine with that, because those
are the rules. =)
i love you, sweet pea!
you are such a good student
and reader and artist. and you
are a kind big sister, even if you
tend toward bossiness. but i know
you are only trying to be like me. =D
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Yay! Happy bday :o) Six is a fun age! (at least I’ve heard that)
P.S. your garden is gorgeous.
what a sweet post. :)
sweet pea looks so much less asian when she was a baby!
munchkin is hysterical. i remember being 5 and really jealous that my brother was getting all the attention when he turned 2. i also remember being almost 3 and being jealous of my aunt who was turning 13, even tho my grandma bought me some candy and a stuffed bunny. i wanted to blow out the candles!!!! i dont know why that was so important when i was little but blowing out the candles seemed like the BEST THING EVER and i was jealous i couldn’t do it!
i was allowed big bday parties every other year. “big”, but bc my bday is near memorial day, they were never that big.
HOW PRECIOUS! love the pic of your sweetpea. I call my babies by that name, too (among others).
MUnchkin will be fine, I’m sure. We give “unbirthday” presents. Probably the same as your “pity” gift. Two of our girls have birthdays 2 weeks apart. Then the third child has to wait 4 months for hers. And it’s right after Christmas. :)
hugs,
Donna
I hope she had a great birthday!
I think my sis and I may have received small “pity” gifts for each other’s birthdays. We were evenly spaced apart though–her birthday was in May; mine in November. That only lasted for a few years; then the ‘rents just told us to deal with it; our time would come in 6 months. And we did, however begrudgingly :P
thank you guys! <3
and i’m stopping the PITY GIFT now, dara. first and last time, because it backfired horribly. haha!
k–sweet pea came out with black hair and went bald by 4 months! a very caucasian thing, apparently. ha! (that doesn’t happen to asian babies!) then it came back the brown that it is now. so she was just growing some hair back at 7/8 months. =DD
After reading this sometimes I wonder if I missed something by not having children.
Aw, such a cute picture! Happy b-day to your daughter!
I have received the bookplate this week, thank you!
thank you diana! and i’m so glad you
got it! sorry it took a while! =)