Jillian's Birthday Party

Miss Jillian will be three on the 28th but this Saturday but we had her party yesterday as it was more convenient for all involved. She is very aware that she isn't three quite yet but she was more than willing to have the party a bit early.

My cousin Tanya started sending Jillian a birthday dress on her first birthday and now she sends both girls dresses this time of year for the party. I managed to get them to stop bouncing off the walls long enough to pose in them:


That Jillian is such a ham.

She loved that dress. She loved that if she twirled it would go up and out a little bit and she insisted I take pictures of her twirling. Here she is mid-twirl:


Back in November, right after Claire's party, Jillian decided that on her next birthday she wanted a Mickey Mouse cake. Luckily for me, I was able to borrow a pan from my friend Kate's mom (thanks a million Joan). Here it is:

I'd love to take all the credit for making this reasonable facsimile of Mickey Mouse but really, I was more the sous-chef than the big kahuna in this endeavor. Kate has some mad cake decorating skills and she was kind enough to come out and join me in the festival of frosting. We didn't finish the decorating till 1 AM and were both so full of icing we were sort of jittery. Goooood times. Here's Kate enjoying her customary Daniel squish:


The birthday girl was really delighted about Mickey:

I still can't believe she's three. Where'd that time go?

Her favourite two presents were the pyjamas with the panda bears on them (to replace her beloved 24 month size 'whale' pyjamas that I was having to squish her into nightly) and her Melissa & Doug slice and bake cookie set. She played with it from the time she opened it till she went to bed. I 'ate' so many wooden cookies that I'm lucky not to have splinters in my lips (not really...the pieces are very smooth). Here she is taking them out of the 'oven' (aka 'box'):


Here she is serving them up:

The toy is really neat because the pieces all have velcro so if you stick the doughs together the child has to cut it apart with the little wooden knife and then put them on the pan. They stick to the pan with velcro and the icings velcro on. It takes just the right amount of strength to scrape them off the pan with the spatula. Loads of fun.

She also got a sandwich making set (also Melissa & Doug) and Claire made a sandwich with all the toppings to eat. My flash failed when I took this picture and this was the best save I could get without too much thought:

She got another really cool present from Anne but I have to take pictures...wait till you see what she came up with!

Even Mr. Daniel had fun hanging out with the celebrities:

Yet another birthday come and gone. The years keep rollin' by....