Lily's Star of the Week party

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It has now become the custom that when one of the Podlings is Star of the Week, we celebrate with a little tea party. Lily's party was held on Thursday, the day before Spencer had to go back to school. As usual, we covered the table with our star blanket and ate lots of star shaped food, including the fairy cakes we baked on Wednesday.
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Lily absolutely loved being the centre of attention this week and loved the party. I think being Star of the Week more than lived up to her expectations. Sadly, come bedtime she was really quite upset that it was Spencer's last night with us and we had a lot tears because she didn't want him to go back to school. Poor Lily!
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 Funny faces all round at the Star of the Week party! For some reason, Lily decided that her swimming costume was appropriate attire for the occasion.

A somewhat blurry photo of me with my little Star. It's a shame it's out of focus as I rather like this picture of the two of us.

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Lily and Spencer

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 A few more pictures of Lily's week with Spencer Bear. She was one happy little girl this week!

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With Lily at school, Spencer passes the time with a book.

He seemed to prefer the books with bears in!

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What's in a name?

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Lily: There's someone in my class called Baby Jesus, but he's only a toy.

Something tells me they are practicing for the nativity play in school!

Baking stars

Spencer was waiting in the kitchen with all the ingredients for our star cakes when Tom and Lily came home.

When Tom and Lily came home from school this evening, we set about making star-shaped fairy cakes in honour of our little Star of the Week. Spencer the bear was waiting with all the ingredients and he even got to take a turn at stirring the mix. Lily chose pink icing for her cakes (no surprises there!) and Tom decorated his in yellow. Thankfully, Spencer Bear survived the experience without getting dirty and we all got to tuck into delicious star cakes at suppertime.
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I'm really pleased with the Miniamo silicone moulds we used to make these. I have both the star and heart shaped sets and they both turn out excellent little cakes. I've used other makes of silicone mould in the past and had trouble turning out the end product, but these just pop out of the case no problem. If you are looking for shaped silicone cupcake moulds, I'd recommend them.

 Spencer has a look at the recipe

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 Lily and Spencer stir the mixture

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 Tom decorates his cakes

Emma cleans up!

I turned around to find that she had climbed onto Tom's empty chair and was eating the spilled icing off the side. That baby doesn't miss a trick!

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Star cakes for the star of the week, decorated by Tom and Lily

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The bear necessities

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Emma is having fun looking after the Star of the Week bear when Lily is at school. At 15 months old, my own little bear is now finally fitting 9-12 month size clothes. She's so tiny! All our 9-12 month baby girl clothes from Lily are summer dresses, so Mummy had a little shopping spree on Saturday (she is wearing one of her new dresses in these pictures). I have a terrible weakness for buying clothes for the Podlings. Bad me!
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Look who's Star of the Week!

It was one happy little girl who came out of school this afternoon. Her dream of being the Star of the Week has finally come true. 

Well done Lily, we are very proud of you for being Star of the Week!

Happiness is...

 ...enjoying a windy autumn day in the garden with my baby.

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Oh, how I love this time of year and the sweet child I was able to share it with this morning.

.Life is good!

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