Birthday Party

So here are the photos from Emma's birthday celebration. It was so great for Emma to spend her first birthday in the States (apart from her actual birthday four years ago) with her grandparents, Great grandparents and Great Aunt Mary. Emma had a long day having been awaken by Samuel at 5:20am. She was pretty tired by the evening having had school today as well. People kept asking her how old she was today and she would respond "I don't know." She SO knows! She must just get a little shy when she is the center of attention. She received clothes, frog travel neck pillow, more stuffed frogs, frog PJs and last Saturday she went to Build-a-Bear to build a Turtle with her great grandma and Aunt Mary. I'll have to post a picture sometime of "Turtle-Turtle" dressed in camo clothes. She did not want a girl turtle at all! What can we say? We had intended to let Emma pierce her ears for her birthday as well. She SO wanted her ears pierced two months ago and so we told her she could get her ears pierced if she stopped biting her nails. That was incentive enough for her and she quit biting her nails, so we took her to the mall over the weekend but she got cold feet and now doesn't think that putting holes in her ears is such a good idea.

As you will see, I made a frog cake that looks like "Big Frog". I had fun experimenting with fondant for the first time too. The frog was a pound cake and the pond was chocolate cake. It took 2 days to make and as always with lots and lots of hours of love poured in to it. It was so rewarding to just hear Emma say: It's Beautiful, Mamma!!!