On Isabella's birthday we had some family over for a nice cookout at our house and to reveal our completed basement (yes, there were scissors and ribbon involved). Here are a few pictures from her birthday.
Our neighbors: Cameron, Dylan and Ben came over and brought what they considered "the perfect present for Isabella." Little did we know how right they were, lesson learned. Kids know best.
The boys brought her a balloon. Their thought? They would bring her a balloon for every year she is old on her birthday (1 for 1, 2 for 2, etc). How thoughtful is that??
For the rest of the night that balloon was attached to her. She never let it go. Crawled all over the house, dragging the best birthday present around with her.
The sweet little guys were 100% right. :)
After munching away on burgers, hotdogs, veggie burgers, and salad, it was time for....yep, you guessed it: cake.
Now, I will pause and say how excited I was about this point- the cakes were from Schenk's on N. Mountain Rd...and, yes, they had strawberries and butter cream icing. Squeee! I actually thought about skipping the real food and heading right to the cake, but I held myself back.
She had her own smash cake to do whatever her little heart pleased, while the rest of us munched on our own strawberry cake! I highly recommend doing it this way.
She very carefully touched the top of the cake, looked at Mum, looked at Dad, looked at the cake, and touched it again, very carefully.
This continued for 3 or 4 more times, then Aunt Meggie walks by and what does Belle do? She throws her arm at Meg and grunt, grunt, grunts. We quickly realized that she wanted Meg to wash her hand off- please GET that icing OFF! bahaha
Of course Meggie did exactly as Belle directed her and once again she was off to touch the cake again, now that she had a clean hand. This continued a couple times, Matt and I stepped in and fed her a few bites so she could taste it, and by the end she was just tired of playing in cake.
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| Just in case you weren't convinced we were crazy... |
Now that she is super hyped-up on a sugar high, we moved on to presents. She wanted to tear the paper off the presents, but the balloon (remember that perfect present??) was a hindrance. She still surged on like a trooper, bouncing up and down, crawling around and squealing, while Aunt Meggie helped open the presents. :)
She was blessed with an awesome porch swing from Poppy, some adorable clothes from Baby Gap (guess who these are from!!), a bouncy ball, Mrs. Potato Head, and an awesome musical card from Poppy.
Notice, Poppy went all out! :) He is a good Poppy to Belle.
She had a lot of fun opening her presents, but did get a little bored with opening them (it took too long to get the present out of the package), so off she went to play with Paisley and her balloon while Aunt Meggie worked extra hard getting the presents out of their packages!
I guess Belle is collecting her "people" to do things for her, just like her Poppy! ;)
She played and played until she wore herself out. Not too tired to Skype with her Nana though!! I asked her if she wanted to talk to Nana and she instantly perked up.
She had a quick Skype session with Nana, to wish her happy birthday, but by then the sugar high was turning to to a sugar crash and burn. She couldn't talk to Nana for rubbing her eyes, so we signed off.
She crashed about 5 minutes (just long enough to change a diaper and put on some jams) later.
Isabella had a fabulous birthday and enjoyed hanging out with her family!!
Coming soon: a post about her big birthday party.
Be Blessed.
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