Sorry for taking so long to finish this post - I started a couple of days after Beth's birthday on April 18th but it's taken a month to finish! I'll put it down to a mixture of lack of time and lack of motivation!
As with Toby, I can't quite believe that Beth is so grown up - six already!
I don't know if anyone else has come across this problem but we had huge issues finding what to give her for presents. I think the perfect present that anyone could give would have been an hour of their time to be used dressing up and engaging in princess-themed play! Of course, if you were to ask her she would say that she couldn't live without a hideous mechanical gerbil toy (or some other such monstrosity), but she never plays with those things and is drawn to craft things and imaginative play.
In the end we decided to have a larger than normal party the weekend following her birthday and a few smaller presents rather than one large one. Of course her friends and family also lavished her and she got some great gifts. One of her favourites was a One Direction CD from Auntie Jane (though I'm sure she'd like me to clarify that this wasn't sent as a result of personal music choice!!).
Her party was a science party by a company called Sublime Science. We thought that her friends had done the soft play parties, the magician, disco and general mayhem ones and we should try something different. The kids were fairly mesmerised with the experiments and bits that Amelia (our scientist) performed. They got to make their own sherbet (and eat it), make their own goo (to take home) and help out with some of the other experiments.
I didn't do a science-themed cake - Beth still likes a bit of princess pink and I thought a variation on Toby's cake would be easy. :) As much fun as her birthday was, I'm very thankful birthday season is over for another year!
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The next PJ Harvey
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