Liberty's One Year Old!!!

It was my youngest baby's (each of my girls are my babies - can't help it) First Birthday!!! It truly seems like I just brought Liberty home from the hospital, but she's started taking steps on her own, has 8 teeth, loves to make cat/dog/and cow noises, smiles and reaches for her family...should of clued in by now that she's growing...

Anyway, Liberty's favorite things are her soft pink blanket she came home with from the hospital and her green teddy. So we gave her a pink birthday party and a green teddy bear birthday cake. When it came to eating the cake we have a dozen videos of us trying to coax her into trying it until we finally gave up and gave her a banana! She is normally outgoing but the limelight was too much for her and she spent most of it sucking her thumb and snuggling on someones lap:)

Don spent an hour decorating the fur on the cake - I thought it turned out pretty cool!

Here's the comparison - toy versus cake (just in case it is too hard to tell which is which...)

Liberty loves cards, paper, cardboard...there's something about the way they taste that she can't resist.

Autumn and Bizzie LOVED helping Liberty open her presents and this is the perfect example of how Liberty spent most of the party (thumb in mouth, on someones lap...)

I never get tired of looking at the similarities between these two.

And finally, here is a taste of one of the gazillion videos taken of trying to get Liberty interested in trying her birthday cake. The icing on her is from our attempts in helping her try it... we loved watching her bemusement at our efforts!