Happy 8th birthday Ivy! Yet another quarantine birthday. She's been bouncing around with excitement all day. We did the ritual reading of the birth story during breakfast (Eric's version). You can read my version here: rixarixa.blogspot.com/2013/04/ivy-claires-birth-story.html
I did taxes all morning and sent them off around lunchtime! Then the afternoon was filled with grocery shopping, prepping dinner, making the frosting, and decorating the cake.
Yesterday we picked ivy leaves on the way home from the chateau and carefully brushed them with melted ruby chocolate. They turned into today's cake decorations.
Dinner was an "Italian flag" salad (tomatoes, feta, & basil) and Tuscan butter gnocchi.
We had a simple birthday party at home, just us and a cake. Maybe we'll have a huge multi-child birthday party once Covid has settled down again.
Ivy got a chocolate bunny, a 3D printer pen, and a pair of (used) shoes. The shoes are a bit big so they might be for next year!
I can't get the videos off of Eric's phone. So we'll just have to stick with pictures today.
France is not doing well with Covid-19 infection rates. Despite months of various levels of quarantine. More than 45,000 new cases today. We had school-wide saliva testing at the elementary school earlier this week. Zari and Dio's school has tested twice this past month.
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