Thursday, August 06, 2009

Adria's First Birthday

Adria had a great 1st BD!

To celebrate I put this celebration bow in her hair. Shandee later denied me, but it did remind me of Lainey's "Cindy Loo Who" days. It looks like Adria is a little "Who" too. So cute!

Shandee was kind enough to take 1-year-old pics of Adria with her cake.
She was timid at first but once I gave her a finger taste of the frosting . . .

To celebrate Adgey's first year Lainey dolled herself all up with blue eyeshadow and red lipstick!
Gorgeous Lainey!

Our Daddy surprised us by taking us swimming, but not in our birthday suits . . . that would be a celebration gone too far!
Daddy and Adgey

Matt came with us (which was very appropriate seeing as he is actually our child and all).
Matt bonds with his real dad and real sisters.


A's BDP was attended by Mommy, Daddy, Lainey, Grandpa, Emi, Shandee, Matt and Megan. We had a BBQ followed by cookies and cake.
Adria with her spread.


She couldn't even wait to have her candle lit--once the cookies were in front of her, they were fair game!


"Don't even think about taking these cookies away from me!"



Singing to Adria


Time for presents!
Adria wasn't sure what to do with the wrapped gifts.

So Lainey helped her.

Emi and Grandpa got her a doggie that plays music when you pull his tail.

the Goulding's got her a kit with "noise toys"

and Mommy got busted for trying to take it away.


Mommy and Daddy got her an Alphabet toy
(mom's always getting the educational toys--forever the teacher!)
Educational or not--its spinning motion and catchy tune was a hit!



Shandee and Emi tried to give themselves as gifts, but there were no takers!
Would you buy one of these at the store?
If so, how much would you pay?

Now that the partying is over, Lainey is feeling a bit ripped off. As I made Adria breakfast this morning, Lainey said, "Can she feed herself now?" No. "Can she talk at least? Talk Adria, TALK!" Sorry Lainey, BD's don't give you special new skills!

But I have to say that her wave and "hi" has improved significantly today. Here she is on her favorite toy, the sit-n-spin, showing her 1-year-old most improved skill.


3 comments:

SG said...

Okay,
a. You should have let me edit her cute cake pictures fist, they are gonna look SO much better than that.

b. You are NOT Matt's mom, jerk!

c. You are funny though.

d. She really is a cute little thing

e. Butch DOES look like he's in his birthday suit . . .

and

f. Poor Lainey. That's still so funny that she expected so many new skills to occur just cuz she turned 1.

Danya said...

Love it! Especially the pictures of her with birthday cake! I do have a couple questions though - why is Butch talking to Megan about his "bum" in the video of Adria and her educational toy? And are you sure shandee didn't get the bag of "noise toys" in the "pets" section cuz I'm pretty sure I bought my dog those same toys last week.....

Ryan Goulding said...

Hey, where was I?