Alathea's 1st Birthday

Birthday Girls...Aunt Mimi came in town from Florida...they share the same birthday!


Pop-Pop came in town from Maryland to spend the weekend with Alathea...yippee!


Birthday girl at her party...surrounded by toys already


She had a blast "eating" her cake...



My pink soccer ball from Greg & Hilary!



Pop-Pop is here!


The hats I made for the kiddo's...princess & frog prince hats


Drinking my milkshake


Playing at NorthLake


Dressed as a princess and ready for my party

I know Alathea's b-day was one week ago, but I am just now getting to posting about the day! It certainly was a day of celebrating...all day long. Alathea woke up to a special breakfast of strawberries, yogurt and chocolate chips...yummy. Then during her nap I went to get "Pop-Pop" (my dad) from the airport. He flew in to spend the day with Alathea! What an amazing grandpa. We took her to lunch at Northlake Mall, where she also played for over an hour in the childrens play area (her favorite), got a choclate milkshake (also a favorite) and picked out a present from Pop-Pop at the toy store. She did all this while wearing a beautiful "1st Birthday Princess" hat :).

Her day was fun, but the night only got better. At 5pm she had a big "Princess & Frog Prince" party over at Grammy & Grandpa's house. Joe's Aunt Mimi even flew in from Florida to be at the party (it was her birthday too!). All of the kids wore hats...wither princess tiera's or frog hats, and the girls even had wands. It was really cute. We did the traditional party stuff...ate dinner, watched a slide show of Alathea's life (which she was dancing too during the party), opened presents & ate cake. Alathea LOVED her own personal cake. She really loved having all the attention at her party...she'd start laughing as others laughed at her. We were blessed to have quite a huge crowd at the party. We didn't mean to have it so big...but after inviting family, Alathea's friends & parents and then her many babysitters, it kept growing. It was a big expression of love to us that people would show up to a One year olds birthday party...especially the babysitters...Thank you!

One thing that I love about Alathea's personality is that she is very girly, yet very active. Two of her favorite gifts were her baby dolls & their stroller (she immediately knew to hug them, put them in the stroller & push them around) AND a little pink soccer ball. I find it too cute to see her playing with both entusiastically in the same day.

Well, there you have her birthday...one big day-long celebration (thats what my Mom did for us growing up...we were treated like princes and princesses...its fun to carry on the treadition!).