Greta's Birthday

Holy Cow... somehow Greta is a year old already.  

Today was her birthday party, and it was lots of fun.  Greta had all her family there... grandparents, great-grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles and others.  She got lots of toys, clothes, books and the other usual fare.    The day started out with Greta sporting her final 'first year onsie'.  

As the guests starting arrivng you can see Greta playing with her usual toys... you can see her straining her neck to say, who are these boys taking over my play area!  Notice Roman with his new shaved head haircut... 

First up was opening presents.  I don't think Greta totally understand that all the presents and new 'stuff' was for her.  This was her basic reaction to all of it... she never did cry, but she had her pre-cry face on for a solid hour :) 

Cake time was next... You can see she ate a bit of it, but she definitely didn't dig in... she's a very dainty gal!  

Since she has egg and dairy allergies she had cake, but it was a homemade, non-dairy, non-egg cake.  It's not actually too bad, but it's also not the best.  She didn't dislike the taste, really just was not interested in cake in general.  She did have some Graeter's Lemon Sorbet (which is non-dairy), and liked that.  

Far and away her favorite gift so far is the Curious George stuffed monkey.  She carried him around, laughing and saying hi to him every so often.  This went on for a solid hour, then it was time for bed, I guess we'll see how it goes tomorrow.  

All in all she was a trooper, and stayed up well past her nap time without too much of a fuss.  Next year will be a whole different story, when she'll understand better what's going on... heck, Christmas will probably be a bit different as well, just a couple months older.