Birthday Party!

Today was Simon's 'official' birthday party. He was joined by friends Zoe and Nina, and their parents (our friends), Jen & Adam and Katie & Karl. A few others weren't able to make it, but were with us in spirit :).

Karl, Katie, & Nina--who we hadn't seen since she was about 6 weeks old! She's gotten so big...holding her own head up and everything :)

Zoe, trying to help Simon open his gifts

Party-going babies! Jen holding Zoe (9 months-ish), Katie holding Nina (4 months-ish), & me holding Simon (1 year-ish!)

Mostly it was playtime for the babes and chat time for the parents--but we did have a little interlude of entertainment when waiting for the pizza to arrive: bubbles!

Bubbles! (5 seconds):




Zoe, staring in awe at the bubbles

Simon's godmother recommended colorful frosting for his first birthday cake--so I made his cupcake (actually pumpkin muffins, plus cream cheese frosting) extra special. Oddly, not much of that frosting actually transferred to Simon's face, even though he ate most of the cupcake.



'A birthday hat? Are you kidding?' thinks Simon

'Oh, you mean a shiny sparkly multicolored toy...well as long as you don't try to put it on my head again, that's great!'