her first

well here we are about to celebrate another birthday and i haven't even posted the poor girl's first yet.. so here it is (finally).

i had planned for this post to be a bit sentimental and imagined it being one of those where i kind of tell you how much i love her and all the great new things she's doing and how our life is bliss because of this girl (and believe me, it is)... maybe the reason it's taken me so long to write it, just didn't have the words yet... but i am telling you right now, that i will not be delivering on that vision. with the pressure on to hurry up and post before someone else's birthday rolls along on sunday, this will probably just be a recap of the day instead. sorry, boring.

her birthday fell on a wednesday, a terrible day (if i'm honest) for hank and i to really be able to dig in and celebrate it. he has school at night and doesn't get home until close to 8, which is just about the time she goes to bed. so we waited until sunday for the real festivities.

we had a couple friends over and had some dinner. then put the girl in her highchair in the middle of all of us, put a candle in her cupcake and sang. she was so confused and just looked at us like we were crazy. it was comical. what do you expect from a first-timer anyway? they don't know what's going on... as far as they're concerned the jokes on them with all those eyes staring at them and smiling real big.

but once we got past all that, and blew out the candle with a little help from me and hank, she dove right into her cupcake. knew exactly what to do with that. she ate all the frosting off the top, tore up the cupcake in the process, didn't eat any of the cake part, and totally loved it. she would laugh hysterically and eat - a little bit sugar high, no doubt - and all the kids there would crack up making her laugh even harder.

after the rest of us devoured our delicious cupcakes from this place we opened the two or three gifts us and the friends had brought over. and wrapped in bags of course, is there any other way to do it with a one year old? do they not all love pulling out that tissue paper?

she is super into beads right now, so that's what we got her. rephrase: she is super into draping things around her neck right now, so we got her beads because that seems to be her favorite thing to take off and on, 100 times over. it's pretty darling, actually.

she also got her one year shots yesterday and consequently the did all the other things they do at these check ups and gave me her stats. these, i would like to document for her first birthday:

31" tall - 80th%

23lbs, 2 oz - 75th%

and in a couple weeks when i have some stunning pictures of this little girl who is certainly no longer a baby anymore, i will post them and the accompanying sappy thoughts that were meant for this one. the weather is warm, we are spending good time outside, and i am excited to start snapping away again in good light. even though this is a late post, i want one more time to say to my little girl,

happy first birthday beth!!!

we love you so so much.