Andie's First Birthday

I was browsing through my pictures today wondering what to write about, when I came upon the pictures from Andie's first birthday. Boom! It hit me. These pictures show Andie's personality PERFECTLY!

For Andie's party we had family over for cake and ice cream. After everone arrived, Andie opened her presents. Of course, like any one-year-old, she was more interested in the wrapping paper and boxes than she was the presents. It was fun for Kate because she got to open about half the presents for her little sis.

Then it was time for the cake!

For any of you first-time-mommies out there, Walmart gives you a free mini-cake when you order the child's first birthday cake there. This was Andie's free mini-cake. I expected it to be much smaller.

When Kate was a baby, being the first time mommy that I was, I fed her every meal so she wouldn't get her clothes dirty. When Andie came around, I fed her minimal amounts of the basic baby foods to make sure she didn't have any food allergies, and then she ate whatever we ate. And she fed herself.

So, back to the cake. At first Andie was pretty dainty with her cake, touching the icing, and licking it off her fingers. It took her awhile to realize there was actually cake in there too. Once she realized there was cake, she started taking handfuls.

Then my little sister, bless her heart, thought it would be funny to get Andie to start playing Peek-A-Boo. Oh, the innocence of the childless. Her turn will come, and oh, the sweet taste of revenge will finally be MINE! (Oh, did I really just say that out loud? Oops!)

Needless to say, after the Peek-A-Boo incident there was no holding Andie back any longer. She continued to dig, and I mean DIG, into her cake. She even doubled fisted it at times.

The end result? One completely happy, completely full, and completely messy baby!

She even had to have a "hose down" in the sink before we could even put her in the tub.

After the sugar high wore off (about 3 hours later), she slept soundly all night. I think I would call the party a success! I think...