Sunday, April 6, 2008

Happy First Birthday!


Eila in her new tent (above and below)


First bike ride!


Eating her new bath toys with her 8 teeth
Baby Jacob and Aaron (foreground) with Baby Maddie and Todd (background)

Kaelin flower in the tent!


Uncle Bart and Michael with cousin Keya


Auntie Carmen (the cupcake expert) with Helen and Brenden


Just before Maddie shares a bite of her ladybug cupcake with Eila



A birthday kiss


The guys- Greg, Andy, Bart and Todd


Enjoying the sunny day


Keya gives Eila a dandelion for her birthday


What beautiful cupcakes!


Eila loves Stefan's nose!

Eila gives Stacey a good bye kiss.

Eila turned 1 yesterday - April 5. She shares her birthday with one of her great grandmothers, Isabelle, and her name with her other great grandmother. They are all April birthdays (including her Ba's) - it's a great month to be born. We celebrated Eila's big day yesterday with a big and bustling party at our house, which was moved from the park picnic location due to predicted rain... but it turned out to be a gorgeous day so everyone spent time out in back and we kept the patio doors open. It was great and everyone had a wonderful time. Eila took a spin on her new bike (with a pushbar, her feet actually don't reach the petals yet) and playing in her new tent. She got tons of fun new toys that she is very excited about- kids love novelty. We had egg-free birthday cupcakes with super duper fancy decorating on them made by her auntie Carmen- they were incredible. There were frogs, ladybugs, and of course, ducks! Eila has been crazy about ducks for a long time and it was one of her first words. Yesterday she learned to say zoo and got many zoo animal toys. Eila is a joyful an and amazing child- we are lucky parents!

4 comments:

Bobby said...

Oh my God Eila is beautiful! She still has “Eila hair”. That’s what we tell Lily when her hair sticks up (Lily, you have Eila hair!).

I have to disagree with you slightly, Eila is the lucky one – to have such wonderful parents. Miss you guys!

charisa said...

Happy Birthday big girl!

She is so beautiful and is getting so big. Did she enjoy those amazing cupcakes?

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Anonymous said...

Looks like a very cool party. Zubin is envious of that walking! Mad skills. I love the cupcakes.