Happy Birthday Leah! We celebrated this little girl's 1st birthday this weekend. She loves to read and to be read to, so it seemed only appropriate to have a storybook party. She had a great time - no tears and apprehension with all of the people around. Leah had no idea the day was about her - and as usual her attitude was just happy to be here.
Ryan and Luke helped me with the decorations. Luke and I bought some children's books from Goodwill and we made paperchains and paper rosettes out of them. The boys also picked out several of their favorite pictures and put them up all over the house.
It's crazy how fast this year has gone - seems like only yesterday that we came home from the hospital.
Official 1 year old stats.
I had fun planning out the menu to correspond with the theme. Greg doesn't understand the point, but I've told him that this is fun for me - I only go all out for kids' first few birthdays.
The hot chocolate bar was a huge hit with the kids. I think I'll keep this up for Christmas parties and add some adult beverage additions to go with it.
Leah's cake. We had a smash cake day last weekend with her and I took a ton of pictures that I'll add later. So this wasn't her first cake, but she still enjoyed it.
Storybook cupcakes - complete with a gluten-free one for our glutard friend.
Leah's family and friends. Ryan ended up moving her right next to him while they ate - she had a great time watching the kids.
Yummm....cake
She mainly digs into the icing.
Sweet little girl
My 3 blessings
Happy Birthday!
Leah thought the presents were great. We had asked people to bring a book to be donated to a local preschool, but she still had gifts from family.
Ryan and Luke got Leah the bus. They had a similar one when they were her age, which was probably their favorite toy.
Luke used to store his favorite small toys and puzzle pieces in the seat of his bus. I am hoping not to find a dead bird inside of Leah's bus like I did in his bus several years ago.
We love this baby girl!
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