1. pick out the perfect cake combination (in our house its yummy moist chocolate cake and cream cheese frosting with sprinkles of the birthday persons choice) make the cake the day of the birthday so the birthday person comes home from school smelling their chocolate cake goodness in the house. if said birthday person (from here on out “BP”) is not in school that day, bake the cake while they nap, so they wake up to the smell of chocolate cake goodness wafting under their bedroom door. (i so felt like pioneer woman setting up this shot)
2. decorate the house while “BP” is asleep so they can come downstairs the morning of to an exciting little surprise.
3. take advantage of your re-writable kitchen cabinets and cover them with birthday salutations. (yes, what you see is a chia pet. the turtle.)
4. take BP wherever they wish for dinner. this BP chose chuck e cheese. (we chose not to have photographical evidence of this tradition – we took the flip instead.) be all squishy inside when the other kids decide all of the tickets they win will be given at the end of the night to the BP. and get more squishy inside when the BP finds out and lights up like a chandelier.
5. OPEN PRESENTS! and EAT CAKE!
6. oh and one more thing, slightly out of order: be perfectly freaking adorable in every single way.
we are so happy, that you were given to us, so that we are the lucky humans who get to party with you every year on january 24th. forever. dont you dare even TRY to get out of it.
