The morning after the birthday we had a party to get ready for! We had a small tea party for our close family and Godparents which was just the thing and absolutely the people to celebrate with! I spent the morning baking, Ed heroically took charge of tidying and hoovering, and Mathilda scuttled about looking cute in her birthday dress.
Her crown was a bidgey bodgey experiment which I think turned out fairly successfully! It's extremely cute but the elastic pushes her ears forward after she's had it on for a bit so it needs regular adjustment to stop her becoming a tiny chubby BFG...
I found some gorgeously Eastery/Springy fabric for her dress - pale yellow with bunnies and tiny coral flowers, with a collar in the same shade of coral.
Mathilda still has a very useful two hour nap after lunch, which meant that although we had to do a slightly weirdly-timed late lunch/early tea type party so that she could be there with us, at least we had two hours birthday-girl free to do all the last minute bits!
We had: egg sandwiches, cheese straws, smoked salmon and cream cheese on rye soda bread, caramelised onion and goats cheese tarts, sausage rolls and fresh pea, mint and chorizo toasts. I absolutely love cooking for a party; planning the menu, baking and assembling all the different bits, serving everything on all pretty china, and then watching everyone tuck in!
We washed it all down with prosecco and several rounds of tiny cups of tea and followed it up with an enormous carrot cake. There were three layers of cake sandwiched with a lemony cream cheese icing, then the whole thing was covered with a layer of royal icing. I made tiny sugar flowers a few nights before and stuck them all round the top of the cake, and had a horribly nerve-racking moment writing 'Happy Birthday Mathilda' across the front, in the least wobbly writing I could manage!
We had a mammoth present session with a very lucky, very spoilt Mathilda who wanted to open everything and then play with each item as it was unwrapped!
It was such a wonderful day and the perfect way to celebrate a fabulous first year!
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