First Birthday!

Lorelei turned one last week! Unbelievable!!! Already she is quite the party girl, because she had no less than three parties to celebrate. I guess she's as happy as we are she made it through her first year, having had the start she did.....

Anyway, party number 1 was on wednesday at the daycare. Whenever there's a birthday they have a little party. The birthday girl can bring a treat, they sing a song and the birthday girl gets a present. Lorelei got a green prickly ball, which turned out to be pretty much her favorite toy... It was nice and Nonny was there to witness the whole spectacle and to take some pictures.

Thursday was her actual birthday and also her second party. Tobias got sick on tuesday and had been sick throughout wednesday and we had already decided that he would stay home on thursday too. This was a good thing for two reasons:
1. He still needed the rest to recover
2. We were able to make Lorelei's cake together
So, Tobias and I made a carrot cake decorated with girly-icing (Tobias wouldn't allow anything else :-)). It was, as always, a nice process having one of Tobias' books titled "Worteltjestaart" (Carrot Cake) as a recipe, and it turned out really well and really yummy (although Tobias didn't like the nuts much...). We had my parents, my brothers and my best friend over for dinner and had a nice time. Our girl was spoiled with lots of fairly sizeable gifts as you can see in the picture. We gave her a baby-swing which we added to the swing-set in our yard. She also got a doll house, some stuffed animals, blocks, a phone en lots more. And of course, unwrapping gifts is still quite a challenge when you're only one, but when you're almost five it's easy. So, Tobias helped his sister out....

Saturday we had a couple of couples over with babies of about the same age. Just around the time Lorelei was born some of Lisa's international friends in the area had babies as well. In fact one of them was born just three days later, when both Lisa and Lorelei were still in the hospital. Anyway, that was nice too. She got spoiled again and was once again the party-girl and the center of all the attention :-).

All in all her birthday didn't go by unnoticed...

PS: I wanted to add one thing, basically for my own sake, so I won't forget... Tobias gave Lorelei a gift that he picked out himself. It is a teletubbies bath toy. Lorelei likes it, and so does Tobias :-).

For news on Lorelei's brother Tobias visit: Tobias Quinn