Keeley River turns 1!

 This little girl had a birthday! I could hardly believe a whole year had gone by.

First we opened presents, and daddy helped her open them up.

She got this cute little dress from Lexi and Scott.

She needed a bit of help to get the wrapping off.

 She got an Arial barbie for the tub, and she carried it around with her for the rest of the evening.

She got the monkey George movie, which I realized I have now purchased this same movie three times. The first time, we had borrowed the movie from the Dominguez's. It somehow got lost or broken, so I had to buy them a replacement movie. Our kids had liked it so much that I ended up buying it for ourselves a little later. Then, we somehow lost a whole sleeve of movies after a road trip that we never found, and that was one of the movies that went missing. So this makes the third time! 

 Here she is with the Arial.

 Lexi and Scott were the only other party guests.

 I wanted a cute picture of me and her, but she just kept squirming and trying to get away.

Then we got out her cake and sang to her.

She was cute and looked around at all of us as we sang to her, but unlike Finley's first birthday, she didn't join in.

 Isaac loves her so much and just wanted to be close to her.

 Then all the kids got in for a picture.

 They had to help blow out the candles.

And then it was time for her to go to town on the cake. First she removed the cookie from the top.

And tasted it.

And liked it!

She really got the hang of eating that cake.

 She left no piece undemolished.

 I was seriously surprised by how thorough she was. Here she tore a big chunk off.

 And then she shoved the chunk in her mouth.

 Then she lifted up the entire cake.

She didn't actually eat it all, but it kind of looks like she did.

 I have never seen a baby trash a cake so effectively and methodicallly.

She was so darn cute! We love our little Keeley River. How has the time flown so fast??

Isaac's birthday

To celebrate Isaac's birthday, we
went to the movies Friday night and saw Wall E. It was Isaac's first movie (except for the free movies last summer) and he did really well, as long as we kept the popcorn coming. We used up our refill before the movie even started! We all really enjoyed the movie, and I couldn't help reflecting on the fact that this was our last Friday as a family of four...

Saturday mommy made Isaac a Cars cake, and he was so excited! He ran around saying Yay! and Hars! It was very cute, and nice to know that he appreciated the cake I made. :)

Here he is with a couple of his favorite birthday presents, Buzz Lightyear and some new Cars.

And, since I wasn't a blogger back when Sareny turned four, I thought I would put a picture of her up with her Ariel cake too.