Happy 4th Birthday Princess Aurora Tigerlily Rose (a.k.a. Beth)

On Sunday it was Beth's fourth birthday. We spent the weekend with grandma and grandad and had lots of fun. Given the chance Beth's ideal day would be spent on the beach and her favourite person to spend it with is Adam so that's pretty much what we did Sunday morning. The weather was fab (for April) and the kids all loved running along the beach, digging and in Toby's case, falling in (an easy one to predict!). The beach we went to (Saltburn) is the traditional British beach resort with a pier, donkey rides and a 'lift' from the cliff-top to the beach.

Just before lunch the weather began to change so we had a wander along the beach back to the car with a stop at the playground on the way. Back at grandma and grandad's we were just in time for Beth's party with all the family. Both kids got spoiled with attention, Beth spoiled with some great presents and the rest of us spoiled with great food. Unfortunately it started to rain so we couldn't turn under 5's out into the garden but they weren't too boisterous.

Today (Tuesday) we had a party at home with a few new friends from the village. Beth was very excited though thankfully she didn't ask what had happened to all her old friends who she requested me to invite . . . I was inspired by two things to bake her a cake; first was that I couldn't find a Princess Aurora one and second a friend who is much busier than I managed to find time to bake her daughter one so I thought that really I didn't have much of an excuse. Thankfully it didn't take too long but it was a bit fiddly and looked rather dicey at one point. The end piece doesn't look bad for a first attempt at birthday cake baking though as you can see, I believe the Princess had one too many birthday cocktails as she started to lean rather alarmingly! I think Beth liked it and she loved the rest of the party so birthday number four can be classed a success. :) One last thing, here's Toby making a new friend.