You turned 1!! I cannot believe an entire year has gone by since this beautiful little being, known as you, entered my world. And, oh what a wonderful year it has been. No need to get into the details of the wonderful year (as you can go back through and read all these blogs :) BUT, some of my favorite include you swimming this summer to you curling up like a little frog on my shoulder - that was when you were a itty-bitty baby, and only lasted for a couple weeks, but man alive I loved it! Okay, so then you were 1... and we celebrated such an occasion.
Your birthday party was outstanding, if I must say so myself. Where to start... Oh, first off, YOU did fantastic my darling. I was a little nervous with naps, and lots of people, and all that jazz, but you went down for BOTH naps without a problem, even with people parading in and out of the house. And you let everyone else watch you as Mommy and Daddy and Mimi scrambled around to make everything perfect. Thanks for being such a rockstar!
Well, the morning started off with a birthday breakfast, and until you are older, Mommy decided that birthday breakfast would be PANCAKES!!!! When you are older, you can change it, but who knows why you would. As for now, you will always get pancakes on your birthday! You liked them, but you liked feeding them to Daddy more.
So, the party, as you very well may know, was "Cupcakes and Cocktails" and, as I do with everything, I went a tad bit overboard. We had all kinds of decorations with cupcakes on it, including your adorable outfit.
We, of course, had cupcakes, TONS of cupcakes, and you even had your very own cupcake.
For the record, you were not too crazy about the cake. I think it might have been a little too big of a cake, if there is such a thing...
Mimi made the pretty flower centerpieces, and we had little picture frames of you scattered all over the tables, one of you from each of the last 12 months!! Oh, we had cupcake punch and cupcake martinis (for the adults, that is), and ICE!!! You loved the ice. We never knew how much you loved ice until your birthday party, but all you really wanted to do was eat ice!
Mommy and Daddy also went all out and got a bouncy house!! It was a pretty pink castle, for our princess of course. Lots and lots of people came, most all your family, including both your great-grandfathers. What a great thing to have at your first birthday! (and yes, Mam-maw was there too, along with everyone else). And then the Grugett clan, Miss Lee, and of course Sarah with her awesome gift. But you got lots of awesome gifts!! You got a new car, and a big pink chair, and cheerleading outfits, OH, and Gramma gave us (i mean you) the fancy scrapbook she did!!! I was excited about that. Let's see, you got an umbrella with your name embroided on it, and all kinds of other awesome things. You got baby dolls and even a pak'n play for your baby! Of course, we have discovered you love sitting in it yourself more than putting your babies in it!
Everyone loved bouncing, even the adults. You didn't know it, but we got in it after we put you adn the other kiddos down for bed and played duck-duck-goose!! Everyone seemed to have a good time and stayed for supper, and even some stayed the night (that would be the out of towners!). Overall, I think we did a pretty good job of celebrating your first year and I hope we do every year like that. Although Daddy (and Uncle Jaybee) may not be too crazy about the idea, as they helped out a lot - that is code for "did a lot of work!!". But it was all worth it. You are worth every last cupcake calorie that I took in that weekend baby doll! Love you lots. I do hope, though, this next year slows down just a tad bit! LOVE LOVE LOVE you - you're 1!!!!!
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