Thursday, May 13, 2010

Virginia's Birthday: A Story of Celebration

A certain member of our family recently turned one. To commemorate the occasion, in addition to a rather sappy, reminiscent post (which is on its way) we share with you an account of how she celebrated, in mostly pictures, with only a few words--just the way the birthday girl prefers her stories.

In anticipation of presents, Virginia tried out her "surprised" face for her father.
She put on a party dress, so everyone would know it was her special day.
The presents started to pile up.
So she started trying to figure out how to get them open.
That was confusing, so we moved on to the important stuff....


The food!

Yep, she was pretty excited, because at this point all she'd seen was the usual vegetables in her little orange bowl.

What? You interrupted my vegetables for this?!

Oh wait, there's fire.
Ooh, fire.


Really not sure about this part.

It feels...squishy.

Okay...I'll try it.
Nope, don't like it. Not even if you cut it in pieces.

But she did get frosting all over that hand she's running through her hair.

And now, it's all over her hair.

Mom, please stop trying to feed me this strange chocolate stuff. I just don't think I like it.

Wait!
Is that...a camera...?

Better act excited!

Notice the only place there is no cake, inside her mouth.

Yah! Cake!!!!

One bath later...a very calm, dignified birthday celebration continues.

4 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday Virginia!!!

    I can't believe she is one already. Great photo story. I love your captions... reminds me of a book that we both have with photos from college... =)

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  2. Love the pictures of her birthday can't believe she is one already!! Can't wait to see you all next week!! Love ya!

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  3. Happy Birthday to Beautiful Scout!!! Thanks for the wonderful storyline. Miss you and our conversations like crazy. Thanks as always for your thoughtful comments on my blog. Didn't mean to slight the lawyer! I think your comment was perfect -- the wish for us all to take more time -- no matter what our profession :-)

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  4. Love the cupcake shots! Happy birthday little lady.

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