Birthday Party

This afternoon we celebrated Blake's first birthday. Lots of friends joined us for food and drink to mark this special day.

Thanks very much to our lovely friends who came and played and helped and supported us today and through this whole long year. We love you so much and are so glad that Blake has such wonderful people in his life!

After spending half the weekend in the kitchen making cupcakes and burning cookies, I had hoped that Blake would love eating his birthday treat. But he didn't. He liked the flame on the candle a lot though.

He chose (stuck his hand in) the K cupcake so we plonked it in front of him and waited for the hilarity to begin. But he preferred the chunk of watermelon he had in his other hand and just kind of ignored the cupcake. Our sweet neighbor Brenna even tried putting some icing on the watermelon to lure him over to the cupcake, but no dice.

He got some lovely books and toys that he was very keen to play with! Thanks again to all our buddies - we'll see you again next year!

There are six hands in this photo - the top four belong to Blake and Brenna, but I can't figure out who owns the bottom two??????