On the weekend of 7 July, William finally got to celebrate his 11th birthday on 10 June at a party with friends! Without having been able to plan much in advance, and in keeping with the kind of parties we did at home, this ended up being a home made party. The idea was to get the kids down to the local park for games and back to decorate pizzas at Daddio's.
Unfortunately the weather conspired against us and we realised we would have 10 kids inside for 3 hours! To fill the time we decided to get them to make the pizzas from scratch - dough and all!
While we were pushing to cook and eat the pizzas around a fun game of celebrity head and then have time for cake, it all worked out and William was pretty happy. The parents were exhausted, particularly the hard working Daddio!
One thing we didn't have to do was to bake William's birthday cake as he did this himself. It was a re-run of the Nigella Lawson devil's foodcake that he and Aisha made for bake off number 2!
Unfortunately the weather conspired against us and we realised we would have 10 kids inside for 3 hours! To fill the time we decided to get them to make the pizzas from scratch - dough and all!
One thing we didn't have to do was to bake William's birthday cake as he did this himself. It was a re-run of the Nigella Lawson devil's foodcake that he and Aisha made for bake off number 2!
The other thing that made us proud was that in response to questions from parents about what presents he would like, William said he had everything he needed and suggested that people make a donation to Breast Cancer Care. This followed on from Aisha running the Race for Life for Sally and 'Aunty' Feeeeee in May. Although he did get some presents there were also donations, which was great.
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Happy Birthday Will ! We will try to do your 12th on time and might get around to making a cake for you. However, as you are turning out to be such a good baker maybe a new 'Strutt tradition' should be started .....B.Y.O - 'Bake Your Own'!
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Happy Birthday Will ! We will try to do your 12th on time and might get around to making a cake for you. However, as you are turning out to be such a good baker maybe a new 'Strutt tradition' should be started .....B.Y.O - 'Bake Your Own'!
This party looks great, William. we are delighted to hear you also thought of others on your birthday. More of us should do that! Wonderful to hear also that Aisha ran the Race for Life. We hope the weekend in Paris was as good as expected. Hope too Mum and Dad are fine.
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Col and Ross