We had a blast yesterday! A had so much fun opening his birthday presents. It was quite difficult for the girls to sit back and watch, not being allowed to participate, but they did a wonderful job. They even had fun cheering for A, giggling as they watched him struggle to tear away the paper.
Then after playing with his new toys for awhile, we moved on to the real deal - cake! The tradition of letting a one year old cover themselves in icing as they attempt to demolish a piece of cake is quite silly, but lots of fun. Andy dreads it because it makes such a mess, but I reminded him that it comes only once in a lifetime. Then he reminded me, "Yeah, but we've had lots of once a lifetimes in this family." He's right. But at least I'm getting pretty efficient with it. Strip the baby down, have the bathtub ready, and don't use chocolate cake.
A didn't get much cake. He went for the icing. After I gave him a bite of the actual carrot cake, he was shocked to taste something other than sugar. But that didn't deter him; he went back to the icing.
Another first birthday down. How many more of these will we get to experience?
