Happy Birthday to You
I had absolutely NO plans for Katie's birthday yesterday since I figured she didn't know the difference, but then felt like I wanted to celebrate the day she was born, even if it was just for me. :) Ryan was really confused how it could be Katie's birthday and not his birthday too. He also said to me multiple times in the morning, "I want to go to Katie's birthday". He didn't understand that we don't GO to birthdays, we HAVE them. Luckily, some moms in my ward planned a last minute play date at the park so we took along some cupcakes and sang to her and it felt like a party enough for Ryan.
Katie doesn't eat sugar so I wanted to make something for her besides a cake. I finally decided on a fruit pizza (thank you Cindy for the idea). I know it's a cookie, but I felt like it was better than cake.
She was so daintily plucking off raspberries and blueberries and enjoying it very much. I realized we had one more cupcake left from the park and suddenly decided to give her the choice (for once). I put it on her tray and she picked it right up and got a mouthful of that poison called "frosting". YUCK! She would go back and forth between the cupcake and fruit pizza, but finally settled on the cupcake. 
Ryan was told that he couldn't have any of the cookie until after he ate his peanut butter sandwich. He fought and fought and finally ate his sandwich and got his slice of pizza. 
He came to me and said, "Here Mom, you can have the rest." He didn't even eat one bite of the cookie itself, he only picked off the fruit. That's my boy! (The bite was from Derek.)
Today we got in the mail 2 packages from grandparents. Grandma Cookies sent a darling little bracelet (on her other wrist in this picture), and Grandma and Grandpa Bayles sent the prettiest little dresses you've ever seen (along with a few other treats). We went to Target last night to find her a birthday present that we thought she'd like. Due to the highly unimpressive selection, we settled on a "My Little Pony" which she likes pretty well, and we know Ryan will soon hijack it from her, as he has every other toy she's been given. 
Happy Birthday!
6 comments:
I love this post. And we forgot to wish her a Happy Birthday. But goodness, she looks so old and darling. I love her outfits, and hair, and her sweet face. I think she looks an awful lot like Ryan. I can't wait to see you guys!!
Yes, SO cute. And so old. And she does look very much like Ryan's sister.
Happy Birthday, Katie!
Hello! Jana's friend Tara here. Just wanted to say that I really, really love your blog. Kaite is so cute! I love the picture on the blog before the b-day post. It is beautiful!!!
Love,
Tara
For future refrence my sis in laws have a recipe for a cake with no sugar (but I'm not sure what kind of flour they use???) I LOVED your fruit pizza and am wondering what the white stuff was that adhered the fruit to it? Frosting? I can't imagine you willingly using that "poison", which by the way I laughed out loud when I read that part! Oh and of course: Happy Birthday Katie!!!!
No, I pretty much put poison on the fruit pizza too. It was cool whip and cream cheese. Have you read the ingredients on those containers of frosting? It's the hydrogenated oil and high fructose corn syrup that gross me out now. I'm such a weirdo!
Thanks for the nice compliment Tara. Derek is usually the one who takes the good pictures. :)
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