First Birthday

First let me apologize for the hiatus. The weeks leading up to the holiday were busy and its been difficult finding the motivation to get back into the swing of post holiday life. I fear that this will be a continuing trend and that I'll need to develop some skills for managing it all; let me explain.

My sweet baby girl turned ONE on the 18th! One is a big birthday so it commanded some time in planning the celebration and since her birthday is so close to Christmas, its important to me that her day doesn't get lost in the usual hustle and chaos of the season. Her birthday landed on a Friday this year so I slaved into the wee hours on Thursday attempting to create a perfect little fondant cake that I had been so nostalgically dreaming about for weeks in my head. Trust me when I say that its much harder than it looks and I give many props to all you professional bakers out there. Needless to say, my little cake turned out perfectly imperfect...

Saturday was the big birthday celebration where I traded in my fondant creation for some more traditional, yet still made from scratch, cupcakes.

So, Evie's Stats:

22.5 Lbs, 30 inches
Favorite Foods: Mandarin oranges, pears, gerber graduates corn puffs, yogurt and ham
Favorite Activity: Bath time with Daddy
Favorite Words: Oh Wee, Oh Yeah, Wow, Cat (more like gat), What's this? (imagine it all slurred together)
Favorite Object: Her minky dot blanket, although balloons would be a close runner up
Favorite Pet: Our cat whom she refers lovingly to as either 'be' or 'bye' rather than cat

This was nearly the one and only shot I could get of her before she was off to explore. She is not the cooperative little darling that I was hoping she would be, but I wouldn't have her any other way.




The little blue bottoms are a g diaper and I really wanted her to be wearing pink, but I never had the chance to got out and buy a pair, just in case anyone was wondering why she is in blue ;)