A look into our world

Well, in case you didn't know, I am almost 1 year old!! Tomorrow is my real birthday, but we celebrated with a party on Saturday that lots of my friends came to. We had so much fun! We had a camo theme (Mommy said to specify that it was army camo, not hunters camo). Everyone wore mostly camo shorts, some camo shirts, and Uncle Tim even had camo flip-flops! Mommy made these camo cupcakes (and Dad helped).
I had so much fun opening my presents - you gotta love all that tissue paper and wrapping paper! I was in paper heaven.
I got some really cool stuff for my birthday, including this dumptruck and the piggy bank toy you can see in the background. It has special coins that you can put in the slot on its back, and the piggy counts and says "oink oink" and sings songs. It's really cool!
I also got this really great guitar! Actually, gues what? I got 3 guitars :) Our close friends the Reeves, the Evans, and the Mosts know me so well, and they all separately thought I needed a guitar. They were right. These guitars are so much fun!
And Uncle Tim and Auntie Sarah also got me a drum! I love that drum - I'm a natural at banging on it :) Papa and M'laine couldn't be here this weekend but left me a few presents to open at my party. One was a really fun wooden puzzle of some animals, and when you lift the puzzle piece off, the animal makes their animal noise. It's really fun! The second one is this swim floatie for when I swim this summer - I am so excited to use it! It has mesh sides, so it will let the water come up right beside me so I can splash to the fullest. I will get to use it when we go on our vacation to the beach this summer, but I'm not sure I can wait that long to get in the pool - maybe we can go to Aunt Sherri's pool before that! Here is one of my other guitars, the one Mr. Bryan and Mrs. Robin (and baby McKenzie-to-be) gave me. It's a little different than the other one that I got, so I convinced Mommy that we can keep both of them. Plus, as you can see in the background, my guitar was my cousin Jamey's favorite present. So after all the kids had left, and just Jamey and I were playing with my toys, it was a good thing we had 2 guitars to play with so we didn't have to share the same one. Yay for cool guitars! After presents, it was cake time! Mommy had a feeling that I wouldn't really care for my cake, and she was right. I'm not really into new things like that, and I had never tried anything like this before. Give me a few more times, and I'll be a cake-eating pro. But the first time? Well, no thank you. I did, however, feel like I should give a little bit of a show at least, so I humored all the people and stuck my hand in the cake a little bit. I had more fun feeding it to Dad than eating it myself. Daddy tried his hardest to help me eat some cake, but I kept saying no thank you. "I'm tired of this, can we be done with this cake-thing please?"All in all, it was a GREAT party! Thank you so much to all our friends to came to celebrate with us and thank you for all the great presents. We love you all and appreciate your love for us!