I just can’t believe my first-born is such a big girl.

Adele requested a strawberry cake with strawberry frosting and strawberry ice cream. She’s not exactly on board with only eating locally-grown food in season. We had a really fun evening with our friends the P family. It was the perfect birthday party! We all had someone to talk to/play with. One of our birthday traditions is that the birthday person gets to have their favorite foods for dinner and pick the kind of cake. Last year Adele requested a green drink made with lime juice and lime sorbet for her special birthday dinner. We put her off because you don’t have frozen drinks in November. Plus it wasn’t exactly a whole foods recipe – it called for things like ginger ale and green food coloring. This year, she requested the exact same drink, so we gave in a tried to accommodate her strange request. Lime sorbet is impossible to find in November, so we substituted mango. I refuse to feed my kids food coloring or soda, so we added spinach juice and fizzy water. Basically, it was ok, but not fantastic. I’m pretty sure we won’t be repeating this one =) On Sunday, Adele’s actual birthday, we opened a few presents and Skyped with the grandparents.

And Adele drank the leftover “special green drink.”