Party

Little Miss 3 has arrived.

We wrapped the presents last night, and placed them out in the room for Lilly to find this morning when she woke up. Which she did, at 8am, to squeals of "Santa brought presents!" after all, who else shows up in the dark to deliver presents?

We had our usual pancakes for breakfast, followed by watching two Barbie DVD's and a Disney princesses movie. As part of the preparation, Flavia made brigadeiros - Milo + Condensed milk rolled in chocolate sprinkles. We tried a recipe she'd found which was skim milk and sugar with some coconut, but too much coconut milk sent it into soup world. We modified the recipe, and I record it here for posterity.

Coconut balls 1 cup (skim) milk powder; 3/4 cup sugar; 1 tin coconut cream; milk (to make it like a soup); icing sugar; 2 to 3 cups desiccated coconut; zest of 1 lemon. Put in liquid ingredients with sugar, make a soup. Add solids until mix becomes thick enough to roll balls. Roll in desiccated coconut.

Flavia felt it was one of the worst concoctions made, but I enjoyed them a lot.

The hall that was rented for the party was in Melba - an old pre-school apparently, that had become a community hall. One whole wall of the building was mirrored - which resulted in lots of running in circles by 3 year olds -- with slow stretches as they observed themselves careening past in the mirror.

The fairies were excellent - providing cupcakes, pink lemonade and a birthday cake, as well as pass-the-parcel, treasure hunt and various other activities. Lilly loved it, and the other kids seemed to enjoy themselves immensely.

So little Miss 3 returned home, and since 7:45pm has been sound asleep after her party.