The Eli and Abby Show: Birthday party!

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Birthday party!

We celebrated Abigail's first birthday today with a ladybug party (one of our nicknames for her is Ladybug). Abby had a great time, and she seemed like such a big girl today. One reason for that was the fact that she decided today to become a walker! She has been taking steps for a couple of weeks now, but suddenly today something just clicked. It was so fun watching her walk around here in her pretty party dress! She really seemed to enjoy her party, and boy did she like her cupcake! I'm going to let the pictures tell the story...thank you so much to my good friend, Brooke, for taking these beautiful photos for me!

For the record, the colors of the banner look a little funny because of the lighting in our living room, not because of Brooke's photography! :)

The favor boxes...

The cupcakes...

The very happy birthday girl!

Tasting the cake...

Yummy!

Opening presents...

Such a sweet baby loving her new baby!

Happy almost-birthday, Abigail! We love you!

4 comments:

Joe, Jennifer, Clara, Hannah, Eliza, IsaiahApril 24, 2010 at 9:22 PM
She looked beautiful!!!!! What a great party for a special little girl :)
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Momma DanaApril 24, 2010 at 10:16 PM
love those photos! happy birthday, Abby!
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Oh JoyApril 26, 2010 at 2:26 PM
wow - what a sweetie! and what an awesome looking first birthday party!!
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Steven & JessieApril 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM
Wow that's a lot of pink! Looks like a really cute party. You did a great job celebrating your little girl =)
-Jessie
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Eli Said...

6/15/10
"I think I already know everything." (Stated very matter-of-factly out of nowhere during dinner!)

6/13/10
"I'm not fantastic, I'm a naughty chihuahua!" (His response to me telling him he's a fantastic boy)

6/7/10
"Superman coming through! Watch out!"

"In your dreams, Mr. Beans!" (Quoting a Skippyjon Jones book...his favorite book series)

4/15/10
Eli (rushing past me): "I'm going to go put shoes on so I don't get pee on my socks!"
Me: "Why would you get pee on your socks?"
Eli (clearly exasperated that I don't understand): "No, I'm getting shoes on so I don't get pee on my socks."
Me (seeing that this line of questioning is going nowhere): "Okay." (I then step back to observe...Eli get his shoes on and rushes past me again, heading outside)
Me: "What are you doing?"
Eli (still exasperated): "Going potty outside where Dada told me I could!"
...Ah, the joys of little boys!

3/14/10
Eli: "Hammer, hammer, hammer..." (Ryan and I realize he is "hammering" Abigail)
Me: "Eli, you don't hammer your sister."
Eli: "But I'm just pretending she's a nail!"

3/5/10
"Mama, I want your arms around me" (I hug him) "Oh, not that tight!"

2/5/10
"Mama, you were wrong a lot of times!" Eli said this laughing after I told him I'd been wrong about where preschool would be meeting.

1/28/10
"When it's my birthday, we should have a 'play trains and relax' party. So make sure and tell my friends that's what it's called so they know to relax and play trains."

1/16/10
Eli: "What is that for?" (Pointing to a candle on the dinner table)
Nana: "It's called atmosphere"
Eli: "No, Nana, it's called light!"

Eli: "Salt, Zoe, salt!
Mama: "Eli, what are doing?"
Eli: "I'm trying to turn Zoe into a pillar of salt!"

11/21/09
"These are called boat shoes because they have boats inside, but I can't feel the boats because they're hiding inside the belcrows [velcro]."

"I will put Abby down for her nap, Mama. You go ahead and play." (He said this very seriously - and gave me a seriously good laugh!)

"Abby has been looking forward to my kiss all day!"

"Hello exciting baby!" (I'm pretty sure he meant "excited" but it's cute either way!)

As we were looking for a missing ball under the couch... "Mama, I can see the ball because my mouth is bigger than your mouth." Don't you just love 3-year-old logic?!

"Mama, I just saw a sign that said we cannot have nap or bed ever again!"