Birthday Girl!!!

Unbelievable as it is, Amelia’s first birthday was Thursday!!  Her FIRST birthday – that means a whole year has gone by since this little beauty made her appearance…..that first year is a funny thing and I remember thinking the same thing around Brittany’s first birthday……..

……it is both the longest and shortest year of my life :^)

And I’ve gone through it twice!!

More than a decade apart – lol!

I wonder if it’s different for people who have multiple children close together…..

In any case, I wanted to have a simpler party for her birthday than we did for her Baptism in May – no renting a room, no days getting food together…..just a nice picnic at the playground with some meats on the grill….is there anything better for a summer birthday?

So we grabbed a kick-bottom cupcake cake from ShopRite and hauled up to our family’s favorite playground in Tullytown, PA with some family and good friends to celebrate my baby girl’s big Numero Uno ;^)

Everyone had a great time, especially Amelia….now that she’s motoring, she made her way around all the tables stopping to visit everyone on the way…..that is, of course, until her Godmother arrived and pretty much handed her the keys to the car – lol :^)

She’s spent more time with this than pretty much any other gift she got…..and she got some pretty cool gifts!!

• A Shapey Turtle
• A B. Meowsic Keyboard
• A B. Parum Pum Pum Drum set
• A Poppin’ Park Stack and Drop
• A set of Imaginarium Wooden Alphabet Blocks
• and a Little People Wonder Woman & Batgirl Figure Pack (….because everyone needs superheros ;^)

I’m also ALWAYS looking for new board books for Amelia….I have a ton of Brittany’s still, but there are some that I never had for her that I’m looking for now.   One of my good friends picked up Where’s Spot – only the cutest pop-up book I’ve seen in a long time, even after reading it 7 times in 25 minutes…..and one page an extra 3 times – as well as On The Night You Were Born which is simply beautiful and really just about sums up what I would say happened on the nights BOTH my girls were born ;^)

It was a great afternoon for everyone and I’m so happy that our family and friends could share it with us.

What did you do for your little one’s special day?

snow play

We had a bit of snow today….not much, almost 2 inches but it was a nice light, fluffy snow so it was actually fun to go for a walk in. We went to the playground for a little while and had a good time. Brittany couldn’t wait to get home to call Meema and Peepa to tell them how she slid down the slide and fell in the snow 🙂

Happy Faces

I think this can go for todays Theme 🙂
Happy Faces
The best part of it all is that everytime Brittany looks out the door or window, she tells me that there is a “Wonder Winterland” outside 🙂