The best thing about birthdays is having your friends help you celebrate. Preferably while wearing full princess regalia. Because THAT'S how we roll....Happy Birthday, my Princesses....

The birthday girls had their big day today !!

There were princess cupcakes and princess outfits and princess necklaces and princess crowns and princess shoes. And we ate lots of fruit salad and ham (the food groups of choice for the Princess-set, for those of you NOT in-the-know).

So, we've had a full week of stay-at-home time, partially due to weather and school closings, and more depressingly, due to a horrific hacking, snotty-nosed , coughing, gagging, feverish cold which struck all three urchins at roughly the same time. While the cold continues to linger, I'm pretty sure we need to go to school on Monday.
We're starting to go a little crazy....

Making cake.

Unfortunately, it was a healthy cake, made with 4 cups of zucchini and whole wheat flour (amidst the cocoa and chocolate chips).

So, we had to fix that.

An inch of buttery frosting and some M&Ms quickly pushed it back into the "astonishingly bad for you" category. Finishing it off with pink sugar sprinkles just added a certain "je ne sais quoi."

Most tasty with a cold glass of milk.

The stegosaurus costume.
For those days when one is feeling Extra Prehistoric....

Inspiration - Van Gogh.