Birthday Girl!!

Holy cow, I can't believe I have a one year old!! We celebrated her birthday as a tiny family on her actual birthday (5/29), but this weekend had a HUGE blowout party for all of her friends (and ours too).

Here are the highlights:

A bubble machine, super awesome. I think it is called gazillion bubble machine, and works as advertised!! Chloe loved it, and so did all of the other kids too.

Presents: Fav of the day was a wagon from her Grandma and Grandpa Romerdahl. She will push it back and forth back and forth back and forth for ages. Then she likes to mix it up by getting in it and having other people push her back and forth back and forth back and forth...you get the idea! She LOVES it!

And this is what happens when Andrew took her out of the wagon to do the happy birthday song and cupcakes.....

Don't worry, she was just fine :) She had a special cupcake care of Grandma Romerdahl, coconut with no frosting, and forgot all about the wagon, for a few minutes at least. We took video of the birthday song, but I need to find the cord to the video camera to connect it to the computer. Poor Chloe was a little scared by the singing. There were no tears, but she did have a pretty confused/terrified look on her face.

She then went on to open her mountain of presents. Holy cow, this girl had a lot of presents!! Too many to blog about today! Lets just say she is set. Luckily she had her friends to help her open all of them.

This particular present has a "funny little story" to go with it. You can see Riley and Lily are showing Chloe how to put the wooden balls over the holes and then pound them thru with the hammer.

Well she got the hang of it really quickly. Last night she was playing with it, having a fantastic time then realized the hammer could be used on any surface....here is where the fun begins. she hammered her books, she hammered her blocks, she hammered the floor....then she started toward the big screen TV......this is when Andrew intervened

"Carmen, don't let her hit the TV!"

Of course I go over there at the exact moment she was swinging the hammer back. You guessed it, right in the eye- well actually the eyebrow. Oh my gosh it hurt, and still does. Those tiny little arms are deceiving! She packs a punch! It is a really cool toy, but maybe a tiny hammer for a baby isn't the safest thing.... but it is amazing how she has already learned to use it! We will just have to restrict hammer use to the wooden balls only!

It was a super fun party, and we are so thankful and lucky to have so many friends and family able to share it with us.