Under the Weather

M1 is, in her words, “feeling a little under the weather” so we’re not having any of the kids come over today & we’ll postpone the kid part of the party to another date, but we were still going to let family/grownups drop by. She’s not running a temperature, or puking or anything, she’s just pretty sedate (though I just blew up a balloon for her & she seems to have perked up) and has a little cough. It’s borderline whether she picked something up at school or is just totally exhausted from her first full week of kindergarten. I imagine it’s somewhat a mix of the two.

We doubted our decision when she got the balloon, but that quickly was put to rest when we considered her reaction to the news. Instead of a tantrum of princess-sized proportions she only looked worried and then she was ok with it when we told her we weren’t cancelling it, just postponing it and we’d do it another time. Normally that would have still elicited a Katie-Kaboom reaction so… I still think we did the right thing. Poor baby.

***edited to add***
Of course I busted my ass last night making two cakes — lemon with lemon curd with cream cheese frosting. I have enough for 24 people — there were only going to be 15 or 16? and now there are going to be a *lot* less and I need people to help us eat cake! I rilly rilly rilly need people to help us eat cake! I might even send some home. Two cakes. Only 11 people and that’s including Madeleine who would probably rather just eat ice cream and throw the cake… Oy.