peanut birthday

so the peanuts celebrated their 4th birthday here in bristol.

i made thomas the tank engine and fifi and the flowertots cupcakes for diggy and gemma to hand out to their friends at school. there are cupcake mixes here that have EVERYTHING in them: cupcake cases, icing & decorations. making me look like the most awesome cupcake decorator ever. their class made big birthday cards for each of them and sang happy birthday.

we had a birthday dinner out at a restaurant called giraffe in cabot circus, where they got a slice of chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream as well as a pink and a blue birthday candle. we were joined by gram-gram, pumpa, miss bonnie and mr. tim who all helped ring in the double birthday.

after balloons and many plastic giraffes later, we also popped into hotel chocolate - purveyor of fancy british chocolate where each of us was offered a dark chocolate angel from the advent calendar collection. delish. specialty chocolates abound at this establishment. delish. delish. delish. got a giant skull that is the size of a sheet of paper for 5# (about $9). gemma was beyond to get a heart shaped strawberry chocolate lolly that she was jumping up & down. this amused the hotel chocolate staff so much that the manager went and filled 2 cups with milk chocolate angels, snowmen & mistletoe and gave one to each child. gemma almost screamed.

what an awesome birthday indeed!