Hey, y'all -
The month of August only exists to host Laney's birthday party.
We decided we'd combine two of Laney's favorite activities for her birthday celebration: swimming, and baking (specifically, inspired by the Netflix show "Sugar Rush"). First, we had a truly breathtaking campout at a secret waterfall spot where Laney and her two best friends could jump into a swimming hole ad infinitum. We let the girls have the new camper to themselves because they love acting older than they are, and I'm sure they pretended it was their college apartment.
Let me say this: Once, for a TV show I was working on, I got paid to travel with a rock band of questionable repute on their tour bus. They were known as greasy rockers and had an overweight male back-up dancer named "Tony Potato," and still their tour bus was cleaner than the camper when the 11 year-olds were done with it. Tony Potato would have been ashamed.
But campers can be cleaned when there are memories to be made:
Then we came home and hosted an all-day baking competition.
For most of the summer, Laney was obsessed with the musical "Hamilton." So I created three rounds of baking challenges based on the show. For example, there was a cookie round, where each girl had to present a trio of cookies that looked like the Schuyler sisters. These are the Schuyler sisters in their big number:
And THESE were two of the entries in that round of competition:
Y'all, I cackled.
The girls came in the dining room and tried to pitch their cookies with a straight face, but couldn't. The cookies were little sugary train wrecks and I can't remember when I've laughed that hard.
Laney's had the same best friends since she was two years old, and they're all insanely smart, fun, independent girls. I honestly think if you gave them $50 and told them they had three days to make it to the South Pole, they could do it.
...just don't ask them to bake the snacks for the trip.
Love,
Mom
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