Happy Birthday, Peeper (Part I)

Today was the first of Peeper's birthday celebrations. Shrike's aunt and uncle invited everyone over to celebrate both their birthdays, Peeper's, and Shrike's sisters (in a couple of weeks).

On the way over, we picked up a couple of balloons.

And here's Peeper's "birthday cake," which she picked out herself. It's a "cookie cake dat wook wike a happy jack-o-wantuhn."

I found the candles at the Dollar Tree - they were only lit for a minute, so we'll use them again at party #3 with her friends next week.

There was also an ice cream cake, for all the other birthday celebrants. She mostly ate that.

I was helping her to open gifts, so I didn't get any good photos of that part of the program, but here she is playing with a couple of them this evening.

Melissa and Doug stacking shapes from Shrike's sister.

Playcraft Wooden Castle from Shrike's parents. According to Peeper, these are "the queens."