Grub, E's invites got printed this week ready for me to put magnets on the back and send them out. we had loosely bantered the idea of rainbows for a theme. E has no specific obsessions yet (thankfully) so i thought rainbows would be nice and bright and easy to achieve. i won a half price photo manipulation on FB (gotta love pages that give stuff away!) and gave the girl free reign to do what she wanted - she put a scene together that incorporated E as an angel in a boat, floating in a boat, the earth in the background with a rainbow across it and unicorn as well. it was just perfect - so now we're taking the rainbow/unicorn theme together and using that for her birthday!

we're having a get together here - we have a reasonably sized house and large carport, will set up here, just having a light afternoon tea (homemade sausage rolls, savoury scones, quiches etc), unicorn balloons and stuff. her cake is a present from my ex-boss (who i have remained good friends with) - two layers with a unicorn and rainbow. bottom cake is going to be a swirled choc/white choc mud cake (i hope!), top cake a lighter vanilla type cake (though it will be swirled with chocolate and pink cake as well) that we can remove and freeze to use for a cake smash photo shoot (unless we can arrange photographer for the next day - or i get brave and take them myself).

E's birthday party will wind down and those who want to hang around will be able to hang here for a bit of a late celebration for my 30th. i can't justify putting on two parties in a month and seeing DH is insisting on doing something for my bday, that will do! i have my bday and first mothers day together - why do i need a party as well.

argh! there she goes - better go get her! late nap today cos we were out with mum!

Grub - i read your birth story hun - sounds like a very positive experience for you - well done hun!