Happy Birthday Amelia

It was so fun to celebrate Amelia's birthday on Friday. Grandpa and Grandma Checketts came down and we had a great weekend together. Amelia looked forward all day to "afer dinner" when she got to eat cake "and i-keam too" and open presents. Her favorite presents were the cake pop from Uncle Joe and her new silver shoes.

Cake pop sent from Uncle Joe all the way from Oregon

I don't have a picture of her silver shoes, but stay tuned because they will probably make an appearance in every picture you see her in until they are too small. She wears them everywhere. But that's okay with me because silver shoes go with practically everything. They go with black, brown, pink, sweats, swim suits, jeans, shorts, church clothes, pjs with stains on them...you know, pretty much everything. That's why I got them for her. I'm smart like that.

As for the birthday cake, I made her a chocolate cake (with beets and applesauce of course) with an orange cream frosting in the middle and a fluffy cocoa frosting on top - it was yummy, if I do say so myself! I saw a cake frosted like this in a magazine and loved the way it looked, so while Amelia is still too young to ask for a Curious George cake, I love making the cake I want for her birthday!

I spared you our singing of Happy Birthday, but here is the sweet birthday girl blowing out her candles. Andrew helped her at the end, but she was pretty pleased with herself as you can tell. Grandma and Grandpa Asay skyped us and it was fun to have them join us! Although the cake was tastier on our end than on theirs.

Here she is telling Uncle Joe thanks for the cake pop


And here is William in the tub. I love how he waves his arms when he gets so excited - it looks like he is trying to make a snow angel.

And here is Amelia snuggling William. She really loves her baby brother and he loves her too! But he is going to have to be a tough boy...

And yes, she yells, "No picture!" at the end. She often yells that when we take pictures these days. Very charming.

I also love that Amelia's not old enough yet to tell me not to post pictures like this on my blog! Ha, I just love this one though :)