The First Year.

Yikes! Just realized after a long absence from my blog that it has been...*GULP*, almost 6 months since my last post!!! (*Feeling really, really guilty). Same old excuses, busy with baby whom I am so proud to announce, is well on her way to toddlerhood!

Bunnee-girl celebrated her first birthday two weeks ago. It was a small celebration with a few close friends. I made her a Miffy cake, and Lisa made lots of delicious food. The cake was lemon butter, with a raspberry-lemon buttercream. It was almost completely organic, with the exception of the fondant (which was storebought) and the Miffy icing decoration (couldn't find organic meringue powder, but used organic confectioner's sugar though.)



Elyse had absolutely no idea what was going on that day. All she knew was that we were spending the weekend at Lisa's place, which she loves, and there were lots of visitors! Not sure if she was actually happy about that..hehe. She enjoyed her balloons, especially a cute Nemo one we got for her (which is still happily bobbing up and down in my living room even now.)

She did enjoy digging into her mini-cake, which I made alongside the Miffy cake. It was so satisfying, watching her smoosh her little fingers into that cake and completely tearing it apart! She ended up eating more than half of that cake, by the way, and had a complete sugar crash towards the end of the party.

I think I was so busy preparing for her party, obsessing about Miffy details (I couldn't find Miffy partyware, so ended up printing and sticking my own stickers on the pink and orange party pieces), that I really didn't have time to think about the fact that she's been in this world for more than one whole year. It finally started to hit me about a week later when, during lunch, she shook her head violently when I put more food on her highchair tray, and proceeded to throw each leftover piece on the floor, one by one. Then she reached out both arms to me and said "Ma-ma....uuugggghhh". I guessed she was done, and I was right.

What a personality she has developed! She's turned out to be a adorable, loving, relatively easy-going (when she gets enough sleep) little one, who LOVES to dance, bouncing up and down on any bouncy surface (including her mommy and daddy's tummies), eats anything, but especially loves tofu, noodles, oranges and cookies.

I am already seeing hints of toddler behaviour peeking out, small tantrums, irrepressible curiousity, and a whopping vocabulary of baby babble. How exciting! How terrifying for my husband and I! But, we take it all in shaky stride because this has to be the most exhilarating, fingernail-biting adventure we've ever been on in our entire lives! Well, so far anyway....