Birthdays For Dolls!

We love birthdays.  Human birthdays, pets birthdays, half birthdays, and of course dolls birthdays.


Today, June 8th, is the day Kirsten Larson, MMG3's doll, celebrates her birthday.  Last year we had a whole day of Kirsten; bread making, cooking soup, dressing up and craft.  Today was simple though, we are trying to balance out which dolls get 'extra' attention.  A few times a year friends and their dolls get invited around for a dolls birthday.  We recently celebrated Josefina's birthday with 7 guests.  Last year we celebrated Samantha's, Emily's and Elizabeth's.  
On any dolls birthday we will try to incorporate either a certain dish, or even a whole meal in acknowledgement of the day. 
During Kit's birthday this year there was a blackout-so the dinner we were planning sat in the oven not able to cook.  This turned out to be a positive experience because we had to cook something even simpler on the gas stove (by candlelight) and eat by candlelight too.  Fortunately we had the log fire keeping us warm, and we used the reserve battery power on the computer to watch the 'Kit' movie.