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Lucy's cake was several days in the making. She chose a White Gold Passion Genoise from Rose's Heavenly Cakes book. It included the genoise cake, passionfruit syrup, passionfruit curd and deluxe white chocolate buttercream icing (which firstly required a custard to be made).
It tasted as good as it sounds and that passionfruit curd was truly delightful. [We cracked open one of the tins of passionfruit we bought in Australia as part of this celebration. Please Australian friends send more tins!]
Of course we decorated the house with pink and purple crepe paper streamers per Lucy's request.
Andrew enjoyed a veal schnitzel dinner for his half birthday followed by half a chocolate cake served with mint chocolate chip ice cream. Apart from the cake I hadn't planned anything but it all came together nicely at the last minute and included an autumn themed table setting. Usually we don't do half birthdays for adults but Lucy insisted that we had to do something for her Daddy!
We've been busy getting ready for Christmas making lots of crafts, decorating and working on our light display. But over the past month we have celebrated some half birthdays and other events. Let's catch up on them!
First up is Flissy's half birthday.
We still had the sign from her Little Miss Sunshine party so we modified it to say 1/2 instead of 1st birthday. Felicity was excited to eat pancakes with maple syrup but more particularly was ecstatic with the orange balloon tied to her high chair.
After dinner we enjoyed strawberry ice cream, her favourite dessert.
Isn't she the cutest, happiest baby! Though she is determined not to be a baby at all and is now refusing the high chair (she must sit on a proper chair) and doesn't like sippy cups (she wants a cup just like the other kids). Oh Felicity please stay a little baby for a bit longer!
Felicity turned 18 months old on Friday. So we celebrated with strawberry ice cream and pink crepe paper decorations. Here are some fun things about her.
- Things she loves include: holding hands, cuddling with dad, ice cream, cuddles with
mum, playing peekaboo, carrying her preschool bag, getting muddy and
eating dirt, snakes, balloons, wearing hair bows, getting her hair
brushed, and dancing
- Can climb a rock wall, walk down stairs, can sign more, please and one God
- Is still very smiley, has very curly hair and very crooked teeth (expensive dental work ahead)
- She is very independent. If she can do something by herself she will and will not accept any help.
- Loves to blow raspberries and give high fives via our secret family handshake
One thing is agreed - we all love our Flissy.
If we didn't have a house we could live in jail.... and eat snakes.
So this is the end of my blogging about Sydney, and indeed our trip in general.
Of course there was so much more that happened. We had dinner with old school friends, dinner with accounting friends (and now there are so many kids), sat around and drank tea, talked with family and friends, drank coffee from grind, packed, slept, washed clothes, drank more coffee from grind, visited our house and neighbours...
We had an amazing time. But it was a gruelling journey and the jetlag was extremely bad. The black circles under my eyes in many photos is evidence of this. So I say all this to preface that we may not be back for a while.
Write some comments Sydney friends. We miss you. Come visit.
We ate so much wonderful food whilst in Sydney (and Hawaii for that matter) Of course I did a lot of research to find awesome gluten free food. And we were not disappointed.
High end restaurants:
Lunches:
- DARE (The Rocks)
- Mad Mex (Darling Harbour)
- Iku (Martin Place)
- The Hatters Cafe (Katoomba)
- Brioche (Balmain)
- Vanto (QVB)
Other:
- Rowies Cakes (Marrickville)
- QVB Tea Room
Loved Rowies Cakes and bought her cookbook. So far I've cooked 5 things from it and no one has liked any of them!
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