Princess Fairy Castle Cake

So my lack of blogging since the new year has meant there was no mention of my baby girls 3^rd Birthday!! I can’t quite believe that she is three years old.  Time goes so quickly, she is such a little grown up now, forming her own little opinions and thoughts on the world, some of which are very amusing, but I will save them for another post!!

As my husband was not working at the time, we decided to keep her birthday low-key, a party would have cost more than we could afford to spend, so we had our family round for lunch and a very lovely friend of mine treated us to tickets to a pantomime in a local village near to where we live, so Molly got to go to her first Panto, which she LOVED!!  She is still talking about it now bless her and singing the songs from it!!

The one thing I wanted to make sure was amazing was Molly’s cake.  She had asked for a Disney Princess Party for her birthday so of course I felt awful that we were not actually doing a party for her.  So I decided to have a go at making a Princess Castle Cake and I was determined that she would get one!  So I got my Nigella head on and got baking!  4 Victoria sponges later and a whole heap of pink icing we were starting to get somewhere and before I knew it, I was looking at the finished cake…..

Molly loved it, it was the pinkest fairy castle I could have possibly got her which is what she had asked for.  Now I know that Alfie is not two until November but I am already thinking of what I can make next………………..

Birthday Emotions!

Alfie will be one tomorrow and yesterday we had his birthday party!! I made what felt like hundreds of cupcakes, packed millions of party bags and blew up so many balloons I was dizzy!!

We had a fantastic party though, Alfie seemed to love it although he looked very confused as to why everyone was there to see him!! His little face when we sang happy birthday was the cutest little picture ever!!

I actually cannot believe that he is one tomorrow.  This year really has flown past and all of a sudden my baby boy seems so grown up!! He is now feeding himself, walking everywhere, and starting to form words together.  Where has my little baby gone?  I am sure I am not the only one to be a total emotional wreck at this great milestone, but I really do feel quite sad.  He seems to be getting more independent every day, and this totally breaks my heart! The silly thing is as his mother I want him to grown into a strong independent person – so why all the emotion!! Silly really I know! I blame it on hormones!!

So tonight I have tucked my baby boy into his bed and he will wake up a whole one year old!! I can’t wait to put his presents out, I have balloons and banners and lots of lovely bits to put around the house for him from his party! I know he won’t remember any of it, or even have a clue what is going on but I love to make a big fuss on any of the children’s birthdays, even Liam has to have a cake and balloons and he is 15! 🙂

Tomorrow I will be writing Alfie’s birth story and linking it over with Actually Mummy for her new Meme! Seems a great way to mark his first birthday!!