Party time

All the Christmas decorations have been packed away, lovely to have them but  too much after a while. Every time Theo came to visit he would always look for the tree then say goodbye to it when he left, so cute.

We seem to be on a roll with appliances going wrong, the vacuum cleaner started to overheat without too much work and wasn´t doing its job. Have now gone for a cordless one that charges, so much suction and being hand held and more upright saves the back and is so easy to use. Then my hand held mixer kept spitting out the whisks, I don´t have the effort or inclination to hand beat mixtures, so that was another buy.  Then Chris decided to investigate before it was disposed of, turns out 2 screws had worked themselves loose, oh well, I can lend it to Rebecca as her´s is in storage.

Theo and his Mum came up for a while Thursday afternoon, we made scones together, although I think Theo was a bit tired and his heart wasn´t in it. He did come out to the garden to help me hang the washing, passing me the pegs, as we were counting them I asked for 2 more please, he just said ´mas´(more) so sweet.

Rebecca and I spent Friday morning in the kitchen, whilst Theo was at nursery, We made a large victoria style sponge and chocolate cupcakes, also whipping up vanilla buttercream for the main cake and chocolate for the cupcakes. She will decorate it once home to the theme she wants, although we improvised and used digestive biscuits and made our own chocolates for decoration. So glad I bought the new mixer.

Yesterday was Theo´s 2nd birthday party, although the actual day is next week, It was being held in a lovely park near Javea, lots of wooded areas, a huge playpark, DIY bbq block and loads of picnic tables dotted around. seems to be the place to go for a party. We took a box of goodies for the table and began to decorate the area as best we could before Theo arrived. Luckily it was reasonably warm with some sun. Surprising how long it takes to blow up balloons. He loved the balloons in his favourite colours.

There were only 4 kids in total but I think that was enough for Theo as he seemed rather overwhelmed.

More edible delights arrived with Rebecca, including the cake. The kids were all given a polystyrene  aeroplane, quite robust, which went down a treat as it kept them amused for ages, especially when they got it stuck up a tree and watched with glee as Antoni tried, very successfully to retrieve them. They enjoyed taking the planes up to the top of the play equipment as they flew better from there. Pass the parcel was a bit of a flop and a few tears, opps, the bubble machine was loved, but the bottles of blowing bubbles mostly ended up on the floor. We stayed for 2 hours, by which time the sun had gone and it was getting really cold, but a good time was had by all.  Theo didn´t want Daddy to fly his plane he wanted Yaya so that was fun too.

This was his cake, a lion, he loves lions and tells you how they roar.

 I tend to keep moulds etc, these were from a box of chocs given ages ago, came in just the right size for the eyes and nose, the ears were digestive biscuits cut down with a cookie cutter, and licorice for the rest. The cupcakes were supposed to represent the mane. Theo loved it and it all tasted lovely too.

More fun to look forward to next week

take care

xcx