Hello all! I’m so sorry I haven’t been writing lately. We all know how life takes over and we get so busy! Emma celebrated her 8th birthday on September 13! It’s hard to believe she is 8! For her birthday we gave her a choice to have her birthday party at our house and she could invite all the girls from her class or she could choose to go somewhere to celebrate and then she could only choose a few of the girls to come. She chose to have it at our apartment and invite all the girls and even 2 girls from one of the other 2nd grade classrooms. Her birthday fell during the month of Ramadan so we decided to have her party from 6pm-9pm Friday night. Two of the girls in her class are Muslim and she didn’t want them not to be able to come or come and not eat if we had it during the day so we decided an evening party would be best.
So a few days before her party we went to Spinney’s (grocery store) to the bakery department to order her cake. She’s big into mermaids, from the show H2O..if anyone’s seen it? Anyway we are flipping through a book with all sorts of cake designs and we come across a mermaid cake. As soon as she saw it, it was a done deal we were having a mermaid cake. So we had the guy take our order and she asked him if he could make the mermaids hair red, he said yes, then she asked if the mermaid could have a purple bathing suit top, he said yes, a green tail, he said yes, and just to write her name on the tail, she didn’t want the Happy Birthday part…so we place the order and he tells us to pick it up around 1pm the day of her party. So the day of the party arrives and it just so happens that she only has a ½ day of school that day. I pick her up and then we head over to Spinney’s to get the cake. When we arrive in the bakery department and they figure out that we are the ones to pick up the mermaid cake, the bakers all get very excited to show Emma her cake. She takes one look at it and I can see it in her eyes as she’s looking at me and then again at the cake, she’s wondering, just as I am, why the whole mermaid’s body is purple! But I can also see that she notices that everyone is so excited that it is her birthday and what a wonderful huge cake she gets to have for her party, so she just keeps nodding and ½ smiling when they are all asking her if she likes it!
So a few days before her party we went to Spinney’s (grocery store) to the bakery department to order her cake. She’s big into mermaids, from the show H2O..if anyone’s seen it? Anyway we are flipping through a book with all sorts of cake designs and we come across a mermaid cake. As soon as she saw it, it was a done deal we were having a mermaid cake. So we had the guy take our order and she asked him if he could make the mermaids hair red, he said yes, then she asked if the mermaid could have a purple bathing suit top, he said yes, a green tail, he said yes, and just to write her name on the tail, she didn’t want the Happy Birthday part…so we place the order and he tells us to pick it up around 1pm the day of her party. So the day of the party arrives and it just so happens that she only has a ½ day of school that day. I pick her up and then we head over to Spinney’s to get the cake. When we arrive in the bakery department and they figure out that we are the ones to pick up the mermaid cake, the bakers all get very excited to show Emma her cake. She takes one look at it and I can see it in her eyes as she’s looking at me and then again at the cake, she’s wondering, just as I am, why the whole mermaid’s body is purple! But I can also see that she notices that everyone is so excited that it is her birthday and what a wonderful huge cake she gets to have for her party, so she just keeps nodding and ½ smiling when they are all asking her if she likes it!
As soon as we head to the checkout counter she ask me exactly what I thought she was going to ask me, why is the mermaid purple? I said I know pumpkin, I think they just misunderstood that we only wanted her bathing suit purple. She seems mostly satisfied with that answer as we are leaving. Unfortunately looking at the pictures from the birthday the poor mermaid looks more like a harpooned whale/mermaid than the pretty mermaid I’m sure she was envisioning!Emma decided for dinner we would have a “breakfast buffet”. We had
pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, strawberries, grapes, and krispy kreme donuts. It was a huge success, they all loved it and everyone ate tons. After, we had the purple mermaid and presents and then they all watched the Hannah Montana DVD Concert while I painted their fingernails and toes! Not too bad for the 1st birthday party in the UAE. 
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