In so many ways, it is hard to believe our littlest girl is one whole year old, but she is. To be honest, I’m not sure who was more excited about it: Ellyson or Emry and Ethan. Emry and Ethan LOVE birthdays. It doesn’t really matter whose it is, but cake and presents are always fun. How much more so when the birthday girl needs help opening the presents and gets to destroy her cake.
Only Grandpa and Grandma came for the little party, but she didn’t mind or know the difference. She got a few presents. Buying for her isn’t easy. Not only can she not tell you what she wants, she already has so many hand-me-down toys she’s not “in need” of anything else. I think her favorite gifts were here new Jim Brickman CD of hymns she can fall asleep to and her camp chair because she loves to climb up into it and feel like she’s a big girl.
We decided to grill food instead of having her favorite: peanut butter on a spoon. (Although Grandma said she would have been perfectly happy with that meal.) And she had a simple cake: white cake with blue icing, “bubbles” and a rubber ducky on top. I think her siblings were a little disappointed that she didn’t totally destroy the cake. Except to poke her fingers into it, she mostly licked off all the icing. That was messy enough: she went right into the bathtub with her new rubber ducks after that.
All in all, a good first birthday and not too stressful. We were happy to celebrate with her!
Opening presents.
Oooh!!! I get the whole cake?
Just the top…but that was enough!
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