4rth birthday and Halloween

Just like in any other year, birthday celebration for our youngest will always be the day of the Halloween. After all we cannot change the fact that she was born on the Hallows Eve (I prefer to call it, All Saint's Eve just because...) And for each and every year, we celebrate her birthday simply by having dinner as a family after their "trick or treating time."

Our eldest daughter simply opted for a small hair clip as her Halloween touch, saying that putting a costume for her age (by the way, she's just 13) is already too much. But adding that the truth be told, as much as she wants to, she just don't want to be teased by friends. My son this year is another super hero - the spidy minus the face mask and our little one is a flower fairy.

 

But this time, there's more to it. Just hear out first the story why we celebrate it differently for her.

I was on the phone talking with my husband when our youngest daughter Ella, asked if she can speak with his father so I passed the phone to her. And the conversation was that she was asking my husband if she can invite her friends to celebrate her birthday at home. Knowing my husband sometimes he says "yes," but not minding the consequence of his words.

And to make the story short my husband said, "yes." (As usual).

And as per rule in our home a "no" means "no" and "yes" means "yes." And just to emphasize one thing, never make a promise that you can never fulfill. So I said to my husband since you said yes to your daughter I obliged you to do be there and to organize with me. 

Our daughter don't have much friends. She is not a sociable type. She mostly keep with one or two but we didn't expect that she'll ask if she could invite 7. Organizing it won't be that difficult. BUT these are 4 years old little girls (and a boy), so entertaining them for couple of hours might be a challenge.

So my husband had a week off and I had some days off too. 

The invitation.  

I prepared it but she gave me the idea of which character to put on it. She loves hello kitty, so it is a given that she'll chose it. I had fun making it on one night. But was too tired to go to work in the morning.

The food.

The best thing in living here in France is that in any kids birthday celebration, food is the easiest. Cakes and juices will do and nothing more. 

Unlike when you celebrate it back home where food were overflowing from pasta to rice to sausages to cakes etc... plus hiring of entertainment with clowns, magicians and the "cotillion" which is a-must-included-program even for a 7 years old girls (duh?) (I don't mean it that way, each and every person have the right to celebrate their kids' birthday but having cotillions, with 7 roses, 7 candles for 7 years old is too much for me, I'm entitled to my opinion, am I right? Or maybe I'm from old school and I see it just an extravagance. If it is for 18 years yes, I don't see anything wrong with it. But for 7 years old. Again, I'm sorry.)

So her birthday food is home made pizza, cotton candy, crepe, cupcakes, strawberry cake and ice cream with give aways candies in hello kitty bags, simple as that. Mind you, in a French standard that is already an extravagance.

The invited.

Well, it turns out that one cannot make it because her Mom needs to work on that day so no one can bring her, the other had another reason or two, and the rest we don't know. So her visitors are 3 in all plus the sister of her best-friend Johanne which we also invited because if my daughter is timid, Johanne is the embodiment of timidity.

 

And for the entertainment part... well of course, it's just us. But they had fun, I'm sure of it.

Here's a video of our cotton candy guy. :)