We celebrated Ashley's 1st birthday a few days before her actual birthday with a special brunch with family for our little princess! When we were thinking of what to do for her party we were trying to think of what she likes to do. With Trevor it was easy - he loved water so we had a pool party for his 1st birthday. Once we really thought about Ashley it became instantly clear what we should do - the girl loves to dance! Anytime she hears music she instantly starts swaying to the beat and bouncing up and down! So the theme was born!
We transformed the house in a matter of hours from superhero to girly girl, complete with ribbon bunting, poms and lots of tulle!
We made little tutu forks to go with the little dancer theme.
And when the cakes arrived (we used the same baker that did Trevor's birthday cake) our kitchen table area was transformed as well!
The party guests - both sets of Grandparents along with Nicci, Adam and Cole - went on a little tour of Ashley's monthly onesie pictures on the wall to see how much our little girl changed from month to month this past year!
Ashley seemed pleased with her party decorations...and her party dress!
We had quiches, pancakes, muffins, donuts, and fruit.
Although Ashley couldn't have most of it because of her continued dairy allergy, she did get to try pineapple for the first time and LOVED it!
After brunch it was cake time!!!
Which one was the smash cake you ask? Good question! They were similar size. Again, she said the non-smash cake would feed ten...it could have fed triple that! And the smash cake could have fed 10 kids!
Ashley wasn't sure what to think when we all sang happy birthday to her!
And she certainly wasn't sure what to do when we placed a gigantic cake in front of her...
Well, big brother to the rescue. He showed her what to do!
Big brother says it passes the taste test!
Trevor gave Ashley her first taste of yummy sugar!
Well not sure if it was just her dainty style or if she was just mimicking how her brother sampled the cake but she just took little finger-fuls of frosting!
Over and over...
...and over!
Hmmm...this is pretty good!
Make that very good!
I like having birthday cake!
Can we do this every day?
She was at this cake for a good 15 minutes this way....
...before she got a bit more daring and took fistfuls of frosting!
Hmmm....
More!!
Now we are talking!
I could really get into this!!
All was well in Ashley world until mean Mommy took her cake away!
So sad!
So the birthday girl got it back and protected it with both hands to make sure no one tried to take it away again!
Until it was on her terms and she said she was done! She made a pretty good dent on the frosting but never made it to the cake! And here we had a dairy free cake (and frosting obviously) made just for her (and Mommy since she's still nursing)! Oh well, more to eat later!
Not too much to clean up!
All cleaned up and ready to play, er burn off some of that sugar!
Her favorite place to play? Outside in the little house!
And playing with the popper toy inside!
And in the trampoline with big brother!
After naps and dinner our birthday princess opened up her gifts! She liked opening the bags over wrapped gifts!
But she liked the unwrapped, already assembled ones the best! Weeeee! Thanks for the new slide Nana Jeanne and Papa Steve!
And before we knew it, her special birthday day had come to an end but not before we snapped a quick pic with our little girl!
And of course one with our family of four! Happy early birthday 'little peanut' as Dada calls you! We love you!
We can hardly believe that we have a one year old!!
