Turning seven

From Apr2013

It's hard to believe that we have a seven year old. Days before Nicholas’ birthday I was feeling quite emotional thinking about the past seven years and the day he was born. Although it’s been a while, I can still remember that day quite clearly. And now here he is, becoming such an independent, clever and creative little person.

So we celebrated another year by baking mini-cupcakes for his class, having his requested dinner with grandparents and throwing a joint birthday party for him and Catherine. For his birthday dinner he wanted lamb chops with mashed potato, peas and corn. Phil cooked dinner and I baked his cake. After blowing out his candles, Nicholas insisted on cutting and serving everyone his cake.

For the joint birthday party, Nicholas chose to have a jungle theme with butterflies for Catherine. We had the party at the Black Mountain Peninsula playground. Lots of friends and family came to help celebrate and we organised a few activities: decorating masks, photo scavenger hunt, pin the tail on the elephant and a butterfly piñata. We had a great time and it was a beautiful afternoon at the park.