My girl had a great birthday. She started off early with a scavenger hunt around the house - this is so much fun than opening wrapped gifts and nicer to the planet to boot!
Both kids had appointments at the chiropractors. Mini-pear loves going, so no mama guilt over appointments on a birthday;) We came home for a little while before meeting Mr. Pear for a birthday lunch - burritos at Raul's - she can be a good cheap date sometimes. D'anjou fell fast asleep and stayed asleep for over 2 hours while we ate and then visited a local toystore to spend some birthday money. She loves her brother, but it was nice for us to have such a big chunk of one on one time.
It was a gorgeous day. We left the car at Mr. Pear's office and all walked to lunch together. We sat at Raul's little sidewalk tables and took in the local scene - there are always lots of characters about. It's exciting to think that in just a couple of short weeks, we will be living so close to the beach and downtown (not San Diego, but our little beach town's downtown).
We stopped at Jimbo's looking for dairy free whipped cream. I'm not a fan of food substitutes, so we compromised on whipped cream on the side, as opposed to filling, her Victoria Sponge Cake. Mr. Pear sent a timely text, "Ha Ha. Stole yer wallet." Not very funny. I still needed cake ingredients. Mini-pear hadn't spent all her birthday money*, so spotted me enough for organic whipping cream and strawberry jam.
We stopped home to decorate the cake before heading out to karate. We detoured to pick up my wallet - I needed money to top up the gas tank and am paranoid about getting pulled over without my license.
It was a good class. It's Bring a Buddy week at the dojo, so Mini-Pear had two friends along. She was super excited to share her karate experience with them, and even more so because she was going to be presented with her hard earned blue belt at the beginning of class.
Mini-pear looked like she might explode with pride;) Later on, the blue and green belts were called up to demonstrate some moves and mini-pear remained seated until she got a friendly jab from her friend, "That's you!"
Yes, it is;)
*Not only did she not spend it all at once, but she bought me a little present! So thoughtful.
Sounds like a lovely day~
Happy belated b-day mini pear!
:)
Posted by: Dawn | February 04, 2009 at 02:05 PM
So proud! I'm happy for Mini. Great that she had friends there too. Give her a huge hug from us!
Posted by: Ginger | February 04, 2009 at 02:10 PM
What a sweet girl. Isn't it funny how all martial arts schools have different belt levels and colors? It really confused me at first when friends' kids who go to a different tae kwon do school than mine do had belts in different order and sometimes even colors ours doesn't have, like purple or camouflage. Congrats on the graduation!
Posted by: Deb | February 04, 2009 at 08:03 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Flo | February 05, 2009 at 08:32 AM
Happy Birthday MP! Sounds like a wonderful day! And, oh, my nana's sponge cake was my favorite whenever we'd be in England. Do you have an English recipe?
Posted by: Mandy | February 06, 2009 at 03:02 PM