Elias' 4th birthday is tomorrow (May 21), and we like to make celebrations last at least a week! So we've already begun celebrating! With package delivery not being reliable here, we had family members send money so we could buy Elias presents for them. We've been opening up one every day or two for the past week, and he's having so much fun with the new toys! I'll post a photo album soon with pictures and videos of him with his new toys so that those who gave them can see his joy!
We also had a little mini-party last week with just one other family, some friends we knew in Missouri who moved here just a couple months before we did. We had originally planned to meet in the park for a picnic, but that got rained out so they just came over to our house and we had our picnic anyway!
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| Elias reading a story with Abby and Drew |
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| Abby trying on Elias' birthday hat he made a school this week. This was appropriate, since Abby's birthday is just a few days before Elias', in fact the day before we had this party. |
One of the major reasons I wanted to have this party early is because I wanted to practice making a birthday cake from scratch! He'll be having a party at school tomorrow that I need to take a cake for, but I wanted to make one first to make sure I could have something good to take to school. So our friends were very willing guinea pigs to try out my first attempt, which was pretty good!
The chocolate cake was stellar, but the buttercream frosting was a little weird. For the school cake tomorrow, I'm going to do a whipped cream frosting instead. So we're having fun figuring out how to do a birthday in Turkey. More to come tomorrow!
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