By Sara | January 27, 2011
Because of everything going on in our house around the holidays, we opted to plan a small party at a nearby play area in honor of Ella’s third birthday. We invited a small group of friends to play, sing, dance, paint, blow bubbles, and do other fun things. The great thing was that it was a [...]
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A couple short days after Owen’s arrival was a very important day in our household: Ella’s birthday! She had been looking forward to her birthday with great anticipation for months – ever since she learned all the names of the months, and that her birthday was in December. We’ve been practicing singing “Happy Birthday, Ella” [...]
By Andrew | September 30, 2010
Late September is a busy time for birthdays in the Clarke household – we celebrated Sara’s last weekend (as she wrote about below), but earlier last week we also celebrated Sasha’s birthday. Believe it or not, she turned 7 this year! Or 49, in dog years, if you prefer that. Either way, we’re expecting the [...]
By Sara | September 26, 2010
I celebrated my birthday a day early with family and friends. My sister Theresa came up to visit, and Andrew’s family came over in the afternoon. I opened gifts, ate cupcakes, and we headed to Homestead Farms in Poolesville, Md., to go apple picking. It was a bit too warm to feel like fall, but [...]
Saturday was my mom’s birthday, which we celebrated Sunday afternoon with a boat ride over to National Harbor for an early dinner. Ella loved riding on the boat – so many fun things to look at out the window! (And we should also mention that Ella picked out her outfit herself. She very definitely told [...]
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As Sara mentioned, this past Sunday was Ella’s 2nd birthday party (or, as some people put it, a 25-month party), and we all had a blast. Including, most importantly, the birthday girl, who spent the later half of the party dancing and jumping all around. Of course, that might have had something to do with [...]
What a busy, fun day yesterday was! We joined Ella at daycare for her party, and had fun both sharing cake with Ella and her classmates as well as playing with them: After coming home, Ella helped us put together her Pretend Soup appetizer (from Molly Katzen’s book of the same name) by washing the [...]
Move over, Melissa d’Arabian! (although, yes, both Sara and I were pulling for you in this year’s competition…) Ella absolutely loved her new kitchen, a present from Grandma and Papa, and spent a good chunk of yesterday evening playing with her new pots, pans, plates and spoons. Granted, the plates in the washing machine might [...]
Ella’s beginning to understand what birthdays are all about, and seemed to think that having Mommy and Dadd sing her Happy Birthday in her crib was a good way to start the day. She hasn’t yet caught on that today is HER birthday, not someone else’s… That will change before the day’s over, for sure. [...]
While Ella is loving her birthday presents from her party last weekend, what she really enjoyed the next day was the tissue paper from all the packages: (And for those concerned – as soon as the video ended, we took that paper out of her mouth, don’t worry!)
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By Sara | January 18, 2009
We made a Bundt (but we didn’t serve it with a plant in the middle) and some other cakes… to celebrate Ella’s birthday! There was a butter cake with chocolate buttercream frosting (CakeLove cookbook), a mojito cake with spiced glaze (another CakeLove concoction) and a poppyseed cake (Andrew’s grandma’s recipe). We made Ella a little [...]
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How awesome are these??? They’re still awaiting finishing (stain? paint? we can’t decide!), but these are Ella’s new toy boxes she received for her birthday from Uncle Jeff and Grandpa. We had floated the idea of something similar to these Land of Nod boxes back in the fall, but we were floored when we came [...]
Believe it or not (and we’re both still finding it hard to believe), Ella turned one earlier this evening. We’ll have a photo gallery up tomorrow, but we wanted to put up some of our favorites from today’s festivities. The day started out auspiciously, with Ella teaching us that she has enough upper-body strength to [...]
By Sara | December 28, 2008
It’s December 28, which means it’s not too long before ELLA TURNS ONE!!! Yes, you read that right. Somehow, we have managed to do things correctly enough that she’s about to hit that milestone–and she’s thriving, in fact. Yippee! On the agenda tomorrow: lots of playtime, a little working from home for the big Clarkes [...]
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By Sara | October 7, 2008
This post is long overdue…. Birthday part 2 occurred while I was in Seattle. My swell friends took me out to eat at Steelhead Diner, right by Pike Place Market. I had some mac and cheese, some of the greatest green beans ever (everyone agreed), and then we capped off the meal with my favorite [...]
