The Birthday Joy

When we asked Julia if she wanted cake first or presents, what do you think she chose?
Of course she needed a crown, necklace, earrings, ring and gloves to go with her Sleeping Beauty dress. She actually requested each of those items specifically.
The main event! Her new castle for all the princess and prince joy a little girl can imagine.
And even though the castle included a normal proportioned prince and princess, Aurora still needed to check it out with her large headed prince. I'm kind of surprised his giant head fit through the door.
Cake time!

For the first time ever, I actually attempted a "theme" cake. If you can't tell, it is a castle. I asked one of my piano students what they thought it was. After a bit of thought, he decided it looked like a castle. Success! All that mattered was that Julia kept telling me how beautiful it was. And it honestly was easy to put together.

During the cake creation she was anxious to chomp down on the sugar cone. Soon after this picture she remembered that she DOES NOT like frosting so we replaced the cake with...ice cream. This did not hold her attention for more than five minutes and then it was back to the castle and all the imaginings of a now three year old.

Here's a video of the cake moment. She did great blowing the candles out, though I did think for a moment she was going to bolt. She looked a little nervous while we were singing to her, but in the end she pulled through.