J's 3rd Birthday, at home

...with the official opening of J's sand pit (sand box to the locals). With four of J's friends from playground encounters and the boys next door, we had a morning bagel party and enjoyed the fantastic and predictable 37.5 latitude climate.

J helped make the cake to the tight specification of flat, blue, starshaped and with a ballerina on top. The bagels were eaten, coffee and Prosecco drunk, sand pit opened and decorative self portraits painted, cut and mounted on the garden (yard to the locals) fence.

Guests departed for lunch leaving adult neighbours to chew the cud, open more drink and enjoy the sunshine. It would be my ideal birthday party.