First Birthday and First Cupcake

I'm pretty sure Rachel enjoyed her first birthday. Both Matt and I woke her up in the morning and sang Happy Birthday to her. She was still pretty tired and I'm pretty sure her birthday wish was for another half hour of sleep but she woke up and perked up quickly. Matt and I made sure she had plenty of birthday hugs and kisses!

Rach spent a few hours in the morning with Matt and then he had to drop her off at daycare. From the moment they arrived everyone began wishing Rach a Happy Birthday! I picked her up in the afternoon and was told that she had a great day! Everyone loved her cute birthday shirt. We got home and spent the rest of the night hanging out with Charlie. The only bummer was that Matt had to work, but he's now off for the next two days! Rach will get to spend this morning with Matt, then I am taking a half day, unfortunately this afternoon will not be all fun since we have to take Rach for her 12 month doctor check upand there will be shots coming, boo :( but we'll get to be together the rest of the day/night afterwards. I also took tomorrow off so that I can spend some extra time with Rach and get stuff done for her birthday extravaganza on Saturday!

In honor of Rach's birthday I stopped on my lunch hour and got her her first cupcake. Rach's only experience with any sweets up to this point has been a few bites of a Christmas cookie and of a cinnamon roll, that's it, not even any juice. She was a bit cautious at first, which she is anytime we give her a new food, but she quickly decided that she liked this cupcake thing and that this whole birthday business was a ton of fun! Can't wait to see what she does with her cake Saturday and what she thinks about ice cream!

(Please excuse the goofy hair in the pics, the girls at daycare just love to fix Rach's hair, hmm)