Happy Birthday Alicia (part II)

Well, today being the actual day of her birthday, Alicia had a big surprise to wake up to. Alas, it was not two brand new bunnies awaiting her in the lounge room when she awoke, but it was the next best thing - a hutch in which to put two brand new bunnies!

Top that off with some lovely presents from the rellies and friends (not to mention some cold hard cash from Nanna, along with explicit spending instructions), and she was a very happy camper!

Of course, getting a flat-packed rabbit hutch is only half the fun. The other half is, of course, helping you father to assemble it! Oh, and actually owning and taking care of the rabbits. Hopefully there's some fun to be had in that, too.

Thanks to some well-rendered assistance, the hutch was up in virtually no time at all. As a bonus, it looks like we've found a new "naughty corner" as well.

Finally, some ice-cream cake for dessert to top off a fantastic day. But that's not all folks - stay tuned for the party aftermath report, coming sometime after Sunday...

Happy Birthday Alicia (part I)

We had a little restaurant celebration this weekend as part of Alicia's "birthday week". We went to The Parlor, a fairly new little restaurant/cafe tucked away between the plethora of golf courses within Cheltenham, with the Hohwy-Barclay family. A marvellous little place, with very yummy gourmet food. Alas, Alicia has yet to evolve her restaurant palate above the "pasta carbonara" level, so the more finer-dining menu choices were little lost on her. Still, they were very accommodating, and whipped her up a lovely pasta carbonara.

In addition, Daddy went to a fairly big effort, and baked a chocolate cake for his little girl, using a time-honoured recipe handed down from parent to child, and conveniently located on a random website on the internet via google. Turned out pretty good, too. Sadly Daddy forgot to bring the candles to the restaurant, so we had to make do with a sparkle generously provided to us by our hosts.

Of course, when we got home, we simply had to plunk the forgotten candles into the decimated remains of the cake, and do it all over again!

All this effort, and we haven't actually gotten to the birthday yet! Stay tuned...

Those crazy kids...

Nothing terribly profound to report to date, so here are some random shots of the Bird kids...