"baby Teresa eating birthday cake"

Yes, finally, the post you've all been waiting for! Or, specifically, the post some twins I know have been waiting for ;). I would love to say that T's birthday cake was her first experience with refined sugar, but, I would be lying. That was the plan, but in the week or so leading up to her birthday Marc and I found ourselves saying things like 'well, she's almost one, we might as well let her...'. Anyway, she still loved it. She started crying when we all were singing happy birthday to her. She tried to hide, but there's only so much you can do when restrained in a high chair. She settled for burying her face in Marcus. She wasn't quite sure what to do with it at first, and didn't really make as big of a mess as I thought she might. She was so cute, she picked off all the little flower decorations and ate them first, then she made quick work of the rest of the cake. Half way through she started offering fistfuls of cake to people. She had some strawberry ice cream after the cake, and experienced her first brain freeze, poor baby :)

Before we get to the pictures of T eating cake, here is the cake in the process of being made.

The directions called for 80 of these little flowers. I had to make many, many more in order to get enough good ones...









Almost done...


The finished product: Her name came out a little crooked, but it turned out better than I expected it to. She definitely won't be getting a cake this involved every year.






And then we ate it.


Now on to the Teresa pictures, there's a lot of them, I just couldn't narrow it down anymore than this!

She liked the candle, but not so much the singing...




"It's all for me?!?"







"Anyone else want to try?"


"I'll give some to Mom!"





"Hmm, this is kinda cold..."


"okay, it's REALLLLLY cold!!"


"totally worth it..."


And that concludes our birthday party posts! Of course, there's still the rest of the weekend. We crammed 20+ people into our apartment on Sunday, and had some fun with the Mellor's on Monday and Tuesday. I'll get those pictures up one of these days ;)

And, for those who are interested, T had her twelve month appointment on Tuesday. She weighed in at 21 pounds 10 ounces and was exactly 30 inches long. The doctor said she is taller than average, weighs slightly more than average, and has a slightly bigger head than average. In other words, she's perfectly proportional :). Her hemangioma looks good, the doc thinks it's starting to go away, so good news on that front!