Sunday, September 7, 2008

Julia's 1st Birthday (& my 31st)

We had a fun day celebrating our birthday yesterday! Julia was not very interested in opening her presents to start out with, but once her sisters helped her get started, she was ready to go.


She only really opened one present, and then she was much more interested in playing with the toys.

You can see that she's having fun investigating things while her sisters "helped" her open the rest of her presents.


She LOVED all her presents and had lots of fun carrying her baby doll around, brushing her hair and playing with all her various toys.
EXCEPT for this penguin... we gave her this thinking it was so cute, and looked like lots of fun, but she is VERY afraid of this toy. As soon as she sees it she takes off (at one point, she crawled around the table and the penguin was sitting right around the corner, and she turned and crawled as fast as she could in the opposite direction)

Chloe & Gracie helped me decorate our birthday cakes (can you see the "MOM" on the big cake?) They had a great time making the cakes beautiful!
Julia was ready to dig in...she didn't want any of this singing or blowing out candles...she was just ready to get eating...


2 comments:

Jan Fanning said...

Great pictures! What fun to see her having a good time with presents and with her cake! One year old! Where has the time gone??
Neat that the girls helped make your cake!
Love, Mom

Unknown said...

Purple frosting was an excellent choice for some great 1st birthday cake pictures! Looks like a great time was had by all. That's funny about her being afraid of the penguin. I was terrified of penguins as a child. Happy birthday to you both!