Lots to cover this week! We had both Halloween and Saffron's 11th birthday.
First up, Halloween costumes:
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| I spent a lot of time trying to talk Saffron into having a cape for her Vampire outfit, but she just wanted to wear black clothes, and only black clothes. |
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| Osric was a dragon. He scared a toddler wearing this. |
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| He wanted to show off the tail, which spent a tons of time whacking on stuff. |
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| Corwin decided to be a pancake, complete with pat of butter and pitcher for maple syrup. It took me several tries to get his costume to actually stay together. |
In addition to Halloween, Saffron turned 11. I feel so old.
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| The husband and I spent a few days telling her that this cylindrical present from her brother was a frozen burrito. So she opened it first. |
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| It was a super-cute shirt. |
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| This is a Dungeons & Dragons "Endless Quest" book, which just means that it's a choose-your-own-adventure book. Very popular in this house. |
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| Art supplies, oh yeah! |
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| Daddy also got her flowers |
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| No birthday is complete without Lego! |
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| A pokemon toy that shoots the pokemon out. Osric chose this -- can't you tell? |
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| Little MLP guys |
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| Chef's cookbook -- haven't gotten time to look through this with her, but planning on making some recipes from it for sure. |
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| She really wanted this Barbie baking set. I don't usually buy dolls for her anymore, but she kept going to see it at the store. |
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| The husband picked out a Squirrel Girl doll for her, too -- she recently read a Squirrel Girl comic, and fell in love. |
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| This picture came out poorly -- this is a comic book called "The Sisters". It's about an older sister with a younger sibling who is annoying. It speaks to Saffron's older sister self. |
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| Hilda and the Bird Parade comic -- we'd read a few of these before the show came out on Netflix. The books are a bit different, but I would highly recommend both the books and the show. Kind of strange, but quite entertaining. |
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| I made her cake again this year -- she wanted flowers on it. I could've done better, but cream cheese frosting isn't the best for piping. The cake itself was delicious -- lemon cake with a blueberry jam filling, topped with a not-too-sweet cream cheese frosting. It was fruity and creamy, and so so good. We will be doing this again. |
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| And the crown goes WILD! YEEEEEAAAAAH! |
