Happy Birthday Georgie!

Well, she made it to the big ONE.

I spent her actual birthday decorating a cake. I started at 8:00 and ended at 2:00pm. Not too bad for a cute pink and white and blue teddy bear cake. I also made a couple of cupcakes, and we did a dry run of the whole Happy Birthday song, candle and cupcake that night after dinner. The last two times I've done a 1 year party, the kids have been kind of scared of the whole scenario, so I thought I'd familiarize Georgie with the whole thing.

Today was spent getting Kate to school, letting Tanner get a few hours of sleep before the party, looking for cups, plates, napkins, utensils and picking up last minute party food: cheese sticks, chips, dip, chex mix. Then Tanner dropped us off at the Children's Museum to set up while he went to Kate's school to pick her up. Luckily the school is only about 5 minutes away, so he was there and back before any of our guests had arrived.

It was a perfect party. We had about 8 kids plus a couple of adults. They painted and played and ate lots of sugar and party food. Georgie actually took a couple bites out of her cupcake, and all the kids helped her unwrap her presents. She got a pink and red polka dot pajama set from her Great-grandma and Great-grandpa Howell. Tutu and Utut gave her THREE toys. Daddy bought her a pretend cell phone. Our friends gave her sippy cups, a stuffed animal, a cute winter outfit, color-crayons-that-she-can't-eat and her very own coloring book.

Tomorrow, we top it all off with birthday pictures. I can't wait to see how they turn out. I'm crossing my fingers because the closest Kiddie Kandids is over 2 1/2 hours away, and I'm not about to haul all of the kids there to try to take pictures. I think that's a recipe for disaster. Especially since Tanner has to be back to go to work which means either I leave him here, or he gets zero sleep. I vote to take a risk and try out this photographer.