Happy Birthday Alice!

We started the day in Stirling, and finished the day in Ajax. It wasn't the most exciting birth-day ever, but I think Alice had a good day!

The shirt - there's this online game Tee-KO. It's a game where you design t-shirts and then the t-shirts battle against each other. Not sure if that makes sense. You draw a bunch of silly pictures, and you come up with silly slogans to put on a shirt. The pics and slogans get randomly distributed to all the players and then you put together a pic with a slogan and then they do battle. Andrew drew a picture of a pig, Andrew came up with the slogan "avenge me" and then Alice put the two together. We've played the game several times, but this particular shirt/slogan combo was created on Kate's birthday. Alice put the slogan and pic together and the "avenge me" shirt was born. The cool thing is, you can actually order the shirt that you created in the game. At first this was the only thing that Alice wanted for her birthday! She opened it last night and wore it today.

Next up, Alice's Christmas earrings. Alice has had some earring/ear issues, and has just worn her little gold hoop sleepers for a couple of months. For her birthday she finally wore the earrings that Uncle Andrew gave her for Christmas. They're cute little amethyst hearts surrounded by little diamond like stones.

We got home from our weekend away earlier than I thought we would. The girls were all really tired from the weekend, and nothing was open - except Shopper's Drug Mart, so with one errand undertaken, it was an un-packing, laundry, video watching/playing quiet afternoon.

At some point I messaged Andrew just to say Happy Family Day and to tell him it was Alice's birthday today - I was supposed to give him two weeks notice, but I forgot. Anyway, it turned out he was able to come out to us and go out to dinner with us, so he did. And he saved the day by picking up a DQ ice cream cake. (Ken was going to make cinnamon buns but he didn't have the right flour!)

Alice really wanted to go out for Dumplings, but settled on Lone Star for the whole family to go. (She and Ken will go for dumplings tomorrow.) We had a fun dinner, and then Cookies and Cream ice cream cake afterward. 

We love you Alice! I love that it was Family Day today, a memory of you joining our family on Family Day eleven years ago. We love you so much, and we're so happy you're a member of our family. Here's to an awesome 11th year!