Eliza's Wiggles 3rd Birthday

My beautiful girl is now 3 years old. Where has this time gone? She is so full of personality, so cheeky, so funny, so determined, so stubborn, so caring, so cuddly, so Eliza. She is unique and we wouldn't have her any other way. For the week before her birthday she kept asking if it was her birthday. We had to keep reminding her that her party was going to be on Saturday and her birthday was Sunday. Fortunately she seemed ok with that.

The Friday before her birthday we headed to the Wiggles concert at Hornsby RSL. Eliza loves the Wiggles and especially loves Emma, often calling herself Emma and demanding that we call her that too. So we felt it was fitting for her to go to a concert before her birthday. At the last concert the Wiggles walked through the crowd collecting bows for Emma, bones for Waggs the Dog, roses for Dorothy and pictures fro the Wiggles. The kids were keen to head there 2 hours before it started so I suggested that they make a picture to give to the Wiggles. They were keen to which was great. Their pictures were really cute!

We headed to the concert, pictures in hand and joined the line to enter. We met up with some other mother's group friends in there and they were excited! The wiggles started with singing some of their songs. Daniel was right into it from the start. Eliza slowly warmed up to it, silently watching but after a few songs she was up and dancing too. Even Alexander got into a couple of the songs towards the end of the concert. I enjoyed this concert more than the last one. They played all their own instruments and had so much energy.

When it came to the Wiggles walking around to collect the gifts and pictures we had Simon walk into our section. Both Daniel and Eliza held their pictures up high for him to see.

Simon was lovely. He spoke to the kids, thanked them for their presents and gave them high fives. So cool!

Daniel's favourite song was '5 cheeky monkeys', espeically when they sang about 1 cheeky doctor jumping on the bed. He couldn't help but laugh.

Eliza liked Emma focussed songs and enjoyed making Emma's bow when Emma sang about it.

Alexander warmed up during 'Point your fingers and do the twist'. He loved bouncing to the songs without me helping him.

All 3 kids liked joining in with 'Move your arms like Henry'.

The concert was lots of fun and my little Wiggles loving girl really enjoyed herself.





On Saturday night I started to make her cake. I decided that I would be adventurous and make a cake of Emma Wiggle for my Wiggle loving girl who likes to pretend she's Emma. I had made a dolly varden cake but realised that it would only go up to Barbie's knee so made 2 more ring cakes to add to the bottom. I cut the rings to be the right size and then iced them together. The icing was black so I did a trial with the colour as I joined the cakes together. It turned out to be grey colour so I decided that with the skirt I would add lots of black.

Then came the time of putting Emma into the cake. I used one of my old Barbie dolls for Emma (thanks Mum for keeping them!), she found a yellow top from our old Barbie dolls too which worked perfectly. I used one of Eliza's yellow bows and added a black bow to it and then put her hair in piggytails. I was pretty pleased with how she looked. I also wrapped some black felt around her legs for the top of her skirt and then put glad wrap around her legs and skirt so she would stay clean when pulled out of the cake and so Eliza could play with her. As I started to push Emma into the cake, disaster started to happen. The cake started to split! I freaked out and had a cry but needed to keep pushing her down. It split more as I pushed. Once her legs were down in it and the cake went up to her waist I had a bigger cry because of the split in the cake. Once I calmed down I started to patch up the gaps with off cuts from the cake and more icing. This seemed to work.

Next up was time to ice her skirt. I made the black icing, basically using all the black colouring so there was no space for errors. Fortunately icing covers all the mistakes underneath and you couldn't tell that the cake had split. There was a lot of icing though! Once her skirt was complete, I used a yellow drawing pen to do the lines on Emma's skirt and it was done. I was pretty happy with the finished product.

The next stress was how to protect it over night as it was too tall for any of our cake tins. After a lot of time and ideas James and I came up with using ring tins with skewers and bluetac between the layers and then a cake lid ontop then covered in glad wrap. What an effort! But it worked!

Saturday morning brought a lot of rain so while James headed to get Tim with the kids I set the house up ready for her party with family

When Eliza got home she came over and saw her cake. Fortunately she recognised that the cake was Emma. Phew! And she was very happy with it. Makes all the stress worthwhile. 

Yummy!

The funny thing was the most of the people coming had no clue who Emma was. Grandma arrived and looked at the cake and said 'What is that?'. Aunty Megan arrived and wondered why a doll was sitting in a pudding, and then realised that it must have been something for the cake. Dear.

Eliza was quite overwhelmed by the amount of people here so started by just sitting and reading with Grayma.

She then enjoyed some of the food with Auntie Jenny.

After a little bit of time and play with Oscar, Eliza came up to me and said 'Mummy, I want to go to my party now.' Hmmmm... I told her that this was her party but she kept insisting that she wanted to go to it. I told her that because of the rain we couldn't go to the park so the park was at our place. She kinda accepted it then. Funny.
She then enjoyed reading again with Aunty Megan.

Mark was the baby whisperer. Alexander was quite overwhelmed by everyone being here and only really wanted Mummy, Daddy or Nana. But he seemed to settle and be happy while being help by Mark which was lovely. He then liked playing with Auntie Jenny on the floor.

James made some birthday babychinos for the kids after he had finished making coffees for the adults. They really enjoyed them!

Uncle Howie trying coke with a spoon as Daniel uses a spoon with his babychino

The food was a hit and most of it was eaten. Even Alexander wanted to try some but it was helpfully moved out of his little arms reach and he was given coasters to play with instead.

Then it was cake time. We sang Happy Birthday to Eliza and then she blew out the candles.

Then it was time to eat. Black icing really is messy!

Eliza was very happy to have her Emma doll, which made it worth the stress of keeping it the right size and the cake splitting.

Then it was present time. Oscar and Daniel helped give her the presents and open some of them. She was very spoilt by her lovely family!

And the enjoyed playing with them. The first present she openned was from the Howies and she just wanted to keep playing with the cookie letters that they gave her. Funny girl.

Daniel also enjoyed playing with the presents too.

Mel, Ben, Tristan and Kaysey came after the party too and the kids liked hanging out together. Lots of fun was had, tasty food eaten for lunch.

Then they watched some Play School together as tiredness set in.

It was a lovely birthday party for a much loved girl!

Last photo as a 2 year old

Sunday was Eliza's actual 3rd birthday. 

After she woke we did present time. She loved openning her presents, especially her new hair salon.

Doing Daniel's hair

Doing her own hair

Doing Daddy's hair

Wait... what hair?

Doing Mummy's hair

Cutting Mummy's hair

The day was quite busy with me meeting some friends for brunch then James on band in the afternoon/night and church at night. But we did get Sushi for lunch at Eliza's request and had a nice time together for lunch time. What a big birthday weekend!