Reese's Birthday Duck

This is late getting on the blog, but I have lots to catch up on!


On her birthday, we kept it pretty low key.  She opened up a couple gifts from us and we sang to her. But on her birthday, she got to try her first treat (and it just happens to be one of my very favorite treats :). Strawberry Cheescake Ice cream bar). She definitely enjoyed her birthday!

She liked the wrapping paper roll more than the present. They always do...so why do we keep buying gifts at age one?

 

She did, however, LOVE her new wagon! She and Emma got to ride around the neighborhood and Emma loved pulling Reese in it. 

 

Then the following Sunday, we had the family over for dinner and cake and ice cream. For Reese's cake I couldn't think of something that she is really into or something she absolutely LOVES. But then I did think of her binky that is attached to a duck...she definitely LOVES that and is very attached to it. So I made a duck cake with a binky in it's mouth :). It was pretty simple but turned out cute. 

 Reese got her very own little duck...but she wouldn't try it and wouldn't try it. Finally, I put a little piece in her mouth to help her out and she gagged!!!

 So instead of birthday cake, Reese got birthday grapes. She was much happier with that :).

 

I copied Kristen with this idea, but I put the first years pictures in a line with the months indicated so you could see how she's grown over the 12 months. It got me looking through all of her pictures from the last year and brought back lots of memories. Thanks for the idea, Sisten!

 

 

Other fun things about Reese during her first year:

- Smiled in response to people at just a couple weeks old and cooing at 3 weeks. She was so tiny!
- She learned to get up on her hands and knees before 5 months
- Started crawling by 6 months
- Started walking at almost 10 months
- Running by a year
- Since about 6 months, just LOVES dancing anytime she hears music
- Loves chasing Emma around and copying everything she does