HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY!

Wow, that year sure went by fast! Morgan is officially 1 year old! She is such a sweet, loving, smart, and funny little peanut! For her first birthday party, we planned a backyard Sesame Street bash. We had cold meat sandwiches, potato salad, fruit, chips, and beans.

  We also had ice cream, cupcakes, and homemade cake. Turns out cake making is not my forte. This first picture is what I felt I was capable of making...oh dear lord was I ever wrong!

This picture was my first test run to work on layering. I still laugh every time I think about this...did I really think I could pull this off. Brad's comment at first sight was "That looks great honey?" And yes he really did ask me that as a question mixed with laughter.

Here is what I ended up with after many hours of work and revamping what I really had in my bag of skills.

I do have to say I was pleased with how the cupcakes turned out, so may try those again, but there will never be cake making in my future. And then to top it off, I saw a super cute polka-dot sesame street cake at Sam's for $17.99. Lesson learned!

Friends and family came to help celebrate, which made the day even more special. Miss Morgan was spoiled with many gifts and is loving every one of them! She seemed to know exactly what she was doing as she tore open each gift. She ate her birthday cupcake, but was very dainty in taking a little nibble here and there. We thought she would dig right in, but that wasn't the case. The party was a wonderful time and we are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends that shared in our little girl's special day!

At 1 year old, Morgan:
- loves to read books
- has started to dance by bending her knees to bounce up and down
- walks
- rides her Pewi bike
- climbs on and off her rocking horse
- eats almost anything
- drinks whole milk from her sippy cup

- attempts to use spoons to eat, but resorts to her fingers after failed attempts to get it on the spoon

- signs "more" & "all done"

- jabbers a lot!

- does the gesture of "I don't know" with her hands and a shoulder shrug

- does the hand motions to "Itsy Bitsy Spider"

- draws with sidewalk chalk

- loves to swing

Our 1 Year Old!