Friday we make the cake - bought cupcakes and iced them ourselves. Grace wanted a turtle cake, so we tried. But we were rather limited in color choices, so I'm not sure if anyone noticed that it was an animal, let alone a turtle! Still, the girls had fun decorating it and showing it off - and eating it of course.
Interestingly, Saturday we had a rainy day. Mommy never dreamed of having to deal with a rainy day party in early May in Bangkok, but there it was: all morning sudden showers and grey cloudy skies. With so many guests, and a mostly packed up house, and indoor party wasn't really a possibility. So we prayed and went ahead with the pool party planned. At least is was nicely cool :o)
The kids all played in the pool for about 2 hours before the sky threatened rain again so we called them out to have the cake and presents. We got most of the way through eating before the rain came... then it was a mad dash for cover - the first place available was the ground beside the playground. Even though there were picnic tables a little further on, the eating resumed right there on the ground and it wasn't worth moving again.
So, presents were opened right there in the middle of people passing to and fro - but the kids didn't mind (and there was plenty of room for people to go around), so why not? As usual, Grace had plenty of curious help in opening presents. She got some great gifts - and everyone remembered that we are leaving on Saturday so no big gifts.
Grace's proclaimed favorite gift was the Bible Daddy gave her. A real "grown-up" Bible with her name in the front. She told us "I'm going to read it all, and when I'm done I'll read it again all my life"! May she do so indeed.
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