Avery's First Birthday party

did we do enough decorations?

i'm in the top left, my mother in the green with her arm out, girlfriends girlfriend Angela sitting in the white shirt, batman's Aunt Gloria in the denim, Avery's step aunt Robbi in the pink and step greatgrandmother with her hand to her chin, the dude in the grey/green shirt at the head of the table is batmans' stepdad Stan.

Still more people... Brother Roman is at front left, Brother Rory is top Right with his little girlpal Emylee in the white dress...(they like to salsa dance together) Notice my protruding belly, and people say I look small for being 9 months pregnant! Its really insulting when they tell me this.
All the little cupcakes I made. the yellow stars are lemon and the pink hearts are strawberry with vanilla frosting. I baked about 4 dozen the day before the party and poor avery was tugging at my apron strings all afternoon. wasnt fun when she got my apron untied and my maternity pants started to fall but we had to get the party ready.We sang happy birthday and had a candle in one of the lemon cupcakes for her. She was more amazed with the group singing then with the fire infront of her. she used her fork like a big girl when it came time to eat her cake.....

....that is untill her second piece from the big cake and great Aunt Robbi took avery's hand and showed her to smash it up with her fingers, Saying : "See Avery, doesnt it feel good?"

Since when do we teach children to play and enjoy the texture of their food with their hands if the baby is happy and successful with a fork?guess we had to get the messy cake shot for a first birthday.