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Celebrating Eight

The very first celebration we had in this house was for this girl.

She was turning three.

Now she’s eight.

In anticipation of her big day, she’d carefully crafted a birthday list:
1. Tamogachi
2. pink sandals
3. kinetic sand
4. Wonder
5. a backpack
6. watercolors

And the menu:
Mom’s chicken chili
homemade bread
Coca-Cola (on repeat)

And for dessert? Another carrot cake.

But this one would be all chocolate with a carrot on top. And not such a big carrot, like last year. A smaller one.

What the birthday girl wants, the birthday girl gets.

So we celebrated and – just like she requested – drank Coke and ate chicken chili and buttery homemade bread.

She got a Tamogachi, kinetic sand, watercolors, sparkly pink Umi sandals, a Japanese backpack, Wonder and Farm Anatomy, just because it’s about gardening and chickens and I thought she’d love it. She did.

And Victoria, Sophie and I did our best to make a chocolatey-chocolate cake with a not-too-big carrot on top.

Thankfully, it met with this carrot lover’s approval.


So blessed to get to celebrate eight with this carrot-loving, missing-her-front-teeth, chicken-book-reading girl.

Happy Birthday, Lula Bug.

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04.05.18 · celebrations, Cyrus, Sophie, Tallula, Violet

I'm Stefanie. Wife to one, mom to 13. Occasional blogger and t-shirt maker. Wannabe photographer and exerciser. Constant grace-needer and orphan advocator. more
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