it's fun to be ONE

Let's start with the night before the big first birthday bash (Sunday night). Steve has a great yellow cake recipe that he loves to make any chance he gets. The only problem is that he forgot to add sugar. Let's just say it looked like German Pankcakes only about 10 pounds heavier. If he was going to make a mistake at least it was an edible one: it makes a great breakfast dish if you add syrup and powdered sugar (gotta make up for those 2 cups of sugar that didn't make it on the INSIDE of the cake). It's always tradition that something go wrong with the birthday cakes in our family.

And here is the finished product (with the cake that turned out right). This cute little Elmo might look familiar to Nana who mailed Kylee a cute Elmo card and book. Thanks Nana for the inspiration!

On Kylee's birthday we took a little walk to Target so that Cody could pick out his very own present for Kylee. He thought it was so cool to have a surprise for her. He made sure she didn't see it at the store until we checked out and then once it was in the bag he would show her the bag and tell her that there was a surprise in there for her.

This is after we came home from Target. I started using a sun hat for Kylee's little head and so Cody has been wanting to wear his hat too.

I had to include two pictures of this pose. This one is better of Cody and the other is better of Kylee. Isn't that how it always works?

This is Cody with his newly wrapped present for Kylee. He was trying so hard to be patient.

In this picture we are just about to sing to her at the Snowbird condo my parents have for the week. Kylee is waving at the camera. Anytime someone would say "Happy Birthday!" she would say "birt-day." She has learned a ton of words in the last few weeks.

She was looking at all of us like we are crazy while we sang for her.

Kylee didn't touch one bite of her cake. She just chucked it off the edge. One thing about our kids is they don't mess around when it comes to letting you know how they feel. Chucked might be too calm of a word. SLAMMED would be more appropriate. Look at that scowl.

Kylee did like the pizza though. This is her AFTER the cake incident. She had already had pizza before the cake and then went back for more. Maybe I should have stuck a candle in a pizza decorated like Elmo with tomatoes or something.

And here is the glorious present that Cody picked for Kylee. It had to be the first one that she opened (of course). His smile pretty much says it all.

Cody got some ice cream on his elbow and he was trying to lick it off. It was hilarious.

See that little tongue? It's just not quite long enough.

Kylee had fun opening her presents.

Her favorite was probably a little doll. She says "baby" really well. The video below shows her saying it.

We love our little Miss Kylee so much!