Can't believe Miss S turned 7 yesterday. We started the day with a small mountain of gifts from us, the highlight being a Zhu Zhu Baby. These small battery-operated hamsters come in a variety of types and are apparently quite the thing as they zoom about the room making cute gurgling sounds. The add-on car and garage thrilled her completely. I also got an old VHS copy of the first Harry Potter film in a charity shop which she was over the moon about as we have started reading the series of books and are on the second one. I sent her into school with a huge bag of fruit for her class (no cakes allowed as it's a healthy eating award winning school), a Hawaiian lai around her neck and two large birthday badges. I then raced to Sainsburys to grab a few treats for the last minute birthday tea we pulled together. We are taking both the girls to London for their birthdays later in the month so decided we wouldn't have parties this year, but felt it was a bit sad not having some mates there to see her blow out her candles. Nanny and Grandad came too with a bigger mountain of gifts - all receiving wide grins from Scarlett - plus Maria and Ethan, and after lots of running around screaming (by me) I managed to get the kids into the kitchen for a plate of shepherds pie (Scarlett's choice) before the screaming began (by them).
I was very pleased with my baby bunting on the cake stand with Scarlett's vanilla cupcakes and we managed a few sparklers too. Happy birthday Scarlett.
In our house birthday time is also Oscar time, as Scarlett was born on Oscar night 2004. We missed them this for the first time in years as they are not on free to air in Britain anymore. Our neighbour tried to record it for us but we discovered, as we made ourselves comfortable in her sitting room for a Monday morning viewing (complete with Champagne and canapes), that she had recorded only the red carpet arrivals. Silence from us followed by small reassuring smiles as she was gutted to have let us down.
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