Our Little Ladybug Turns One

We had Sara Grace's birthday party on May 3. We felt fortunate that all of our immediate family members on both sides of the family we able to come. It was quite fun. Of course, I had to do a ladybug theme. Sammy asked if it was for me or if it was Sara Grace. I figured at this point, it really didn't matter. Sara Grace didn't know the difference and I REALLY enjoyed the ladybug theme! Here's some pictures from the day:

She was somewhat tenative at first--not sure about this frosting stuff. Although, she did touch the cake as soon as we put it in front of her. We had to make Jaybird touch his first birthday cake.

Pretty soon, she decided it was pretty cool and started digging in.

She decided it was quite tasty! Lemon cake! *As a side note, her Uncle Lee (Susan's fiancee) has the same birthday (28 years older) and his favorite cake is lemon cake with chocolate frosting. We had made Uncle Lee a birthday cake of his own for the party and I used some of the batter to make Sara Grace's cake. That's why she had a lemon cake. :)

A word of warning to anyone thinking of putting red frosting on their child's first birthday cake--it WILL look like a crime scene when you are done! :)

Aunt Missy wanted to be the brave one to get Sara Grace out of the highchair and into the tub. More power to her! I wasn't really looking forward to it, myself.

All clean! I don't know if you can tell or not, but the water was red from all the frosting that washed off of her! And it left a nasty dark ring around my tub that I had to scrub to get off! :)

Just a shot of the balloon we got her. Not a "birthday" balloon, but I thought it fit the occaision quite nicely!

This is the ladybug cake I made for all the adults to eat

(butter fudge cake with cream cheese frosting)

This was Sara Grace's own personal ladybug.

And baby ladybugs for the kids at the party and any adults that didn't want chocolate cake (like me! :) )

My How You've Grown!

Sara Grace turned a year old on the fourth and I just thought I'd post some "then and now" pictures. The first picture is from when she was four days old. The second one was taken last Sunday (two weeks after her first birthday). She's grown quite a bit! When she was born, she weighed 5lbs. 15.45 oz. and was 18.75 inches long. At her one year check-up, she weighed 20 lbs. 2.5 oz. and was 30 inches long! Now, if only it was such an accomplishment for adults to gain almost 15 lbs. in one year!! :)