Megan's 1st Birthday

Megan's first year has flown by. It seems to have gone faster than Abby's first year but I think we were also busier with all our activities on the weekends, that makes time fly. So we had a couple parties for Megan. We've had more cupcakes and cake in a 48 hour period than most people should. Our festivities started off on Friday night with a party with just our family. Well actually the party started off with cupcakes at daycare Friday afternoon.


Just a small simple cake.

I think she has gotten the hang of eating cake.



Pretty excited about things.

Then we let Abby give Megan her birthday presents that she picked out all by herself. Megan got a water bottle with her name on it, Rowdy the Dump Truck, and...

some yellow duck that is supposed to swim in the bathtub. We'll see if that works out. I think Abby remembered seeing it at the Cowan lake house so Megan had to have it.

Here's our birthday girl on her party day on Saturday. She was all excited and ready to go.

Stripped down and waiting patiently for the cake. I think she is starting to look more like Abby. She had a small growth spurt recently and has changed a lot lately.



The cake, had to keep her hand out of the candle, of course big sister Abby was there to help blow it out.


Here's the cupcake cake that the rest of us ate. It's all actually cupcakes so no cutting, just had to hand out the cupcakes. And of course Princess and the Frog theme (Abby helped pick that out).

The older girls eating their cupcakes, well mostly the frosting. Clockwise from Abby it's Cora, Ashley, and Carmen. As you can tell they were playing some dress up beforehand.

Our birthday girl getting in to the cake.

Purple frosting was everywhere when we finally decided she was done.


Off to the bath tub you go!

Opening presents with Daddy. I didn't get a lot of present opening photos, but believe it or not there are actually toys that we didn't have. Megan got some great toys and clothes. Abby is doing pretty good at remembering they are Megan's and not hers, however there are many reminders to help her with that.

Megan decided she was going to try to carry this one.

After everyone left we still had Grandma & Grandpa Schmidt and Betsy, BJ, & Theo so Abby busted out some games for everyone to play.

Uncle Tim with Theo and Megan. Megan and Theo are 10 months apart.




Here's a short video of Megan eating cake. I didn't get the Happy Birthday video or Abby blowing out the candle so this will have to do.

We survived our first year with Megan, and being parents of 2. We are exhausted.