The Real Birthday

For Lydia's actual birthday, we took her to Moe's since kids eat free on Mondays. I know this is a little hypocrtical since I wouldn't give her real cake, but I gave her fast food. She wolfed down an entire kid-sized quesadilla and loved the helium balloon. Then we came home and she ate another entire "cupcake" and some ice cream!

Cousins

Lydia loves to play with Matthew- he makes her laugh all the time!

Lydia turns 1

So my next few posts will probably be highlights from the celebration of Lydia's birthday numero uno. These come from her birthday party with family and friends the Sat. before the real day. Yes, I confess I turned into anti-sugar mom and made Lydia her own special strawberry banana muffins (further confession: I made them with applesauce and whole wheat flour) while all the other guests were allowed to have real chocolate cupcakes with frosting. We did put whipped cream and sugar on top of Lydia's to make it more authentic. She was not so sure about the whole experience partly I think because she had never been given such a large chunk of food to navigate on her own. So she took off all the whipped cream and just ate the muffin in large chunks- the whole thing! She did get to try ice cream too, but we think it was too cold for her the first time since she didn't love it. Doug was a little concerned.