A birthday party for Simon

Today had the makings of a very boring day.  Driveway shoveled by 8 am and more snow coming.  Scott was snoozing his day away on the couch in drugland.  C told me this morning that he turned 3 today.  He asked me what I got him--no lie.  Then on F/B I read that a friend's daughter was giving her old doll a b-day party.  I asked C if he would like to give one of his animals a party.  Simon was selected as the bday boy and preparations began.  I began by preparing a cake--C was very excited.  His way of helping was by gathering Simon and a few of Simon's friends. He brought them to the kitchen table.  Every minute he kept saying, "The cake is ready. The cake is ready."  I quieted him with goldfish and the sad truth that the cake was not ready.  This carried on most of the time I was making the filling and the cake.  I made a banana cake with banana cream filling.  I iced it with my easy, quick chocolate frosting.  Scott woke up around the time the cake began baking.  He wanted to know what smelled so good.  Next we decorated.  I pulled out all the party stuff from C's first bday.  C and Daddy grew more excited.  We changed out of our pjs and dressed up a bit.  I made us lunch and tea.  I wrapped a gift for Simon (okay for Colin, but it was for Simon, too).  The time came to throw Simon his party.  We ate lunch, sang Happy B-day, helped Simon blow out his candle and open his gift.  Of course we ate cake and drank tea.  We all had fun together. 

banner--odd location chosen by C.  It kept getting stuck when I opened the cabinets.

Yummm. cake.

Daddy the zebra

 showing C how to hold his pinkies our while drinking his tea.  Sort of pointless when you have no handle. 

 The little man came dressed as SuperWhy.  He took his mask off to eat though.

Eating a giant bite of cake.

opening Simon's gift (a monster truck from my winter boredom stash)

the birthday horse.