The Birthday Retrospective

Life seems to have gotten in the way of blog progress lately, but for the sake of posterity (remember, this site is essentially a living and breathing baby book for my kids) I've got to at least post photos from Anna's first birthday party.

Although completely unoriginal -- I duplicated Lily's first birthday down to the local kiddie entertainer Oh Susannah -- I was determined that Anna would have a festive party to close out her first year of life.

And while there may have been more children in Lily's age bracket than in Anna's, festive it was.

The music and balloon animals were a big hit with the preschoolers. The cake (homemade, sort of from scratch. sort of.) wasn't such a big hit with the birthday girl. Not a big fan of sweets, although I'm certain she'll soon follow in her sister's and mother's footsteps and outgrow that disdain. The Hello Cupcakes minis that I got for the rest of us were talked about for days.

I still can't believe that my baby is one...