Elea’s birthday party was amazing. She celebrated with all her friends and family, and mommy managed to get through the morning without shedding a tear! Yay for me! Although I had plenty to cry about, my chocolate towers melting within seconds of being put on display and my homemade frosting eating the cupcakes  within the hour, Nate managed to keep a smile on my face. Lesson learned! Don’t put out cupcakes until you are ready to gobble them down. In my defense, it was initially cloudy and the sun was nowhere to be found. But my sister did manage to get this picture of the few cupcakes I was smart enough to leave inside. Thank God Elea’s friends didn’t mind the melted sugar 😉

The homemade macaroons were a hit, making the 2 days I worked on all 80 of them completely worth it. While baking, Nate wanted me to watch him do a new dance move, so I obviously chose to look while putting my oven glove on and taking the batch of macaroons out of the oven. To my surprise, my glove was on backwards and the tray completely burned me, the macaroons flew out of my hands and onto the floor. Nate’s eyes were so wide as they followed the pink macaroons mid air and onto the floor. “It’s alright mommy, it’s alright. We’ll make some more.”

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Breathe. In and out. Don’t cry.

After my breath managed to come back, we sat on the floor and ate macaroons until we could eat no more. And then we started another batch. No dancing this time.

We had a great performance by Ms. Sara from Play Music Company and Elea loved it. I have to admit, we are obsessed with Ms. Sara’s Born Curious dvd she gifted Elea for her birthday. We listen to it over and over with “louder, please” requests coming from the back seat. And honestly her voice is so incredible, I find myself singing the songs over and over…pretending to sound as good as she does.

The day wrapped up nicely with piñata fun and a long nice nap for everyone. I couldn’t have done it without my little tribe.

xoxo