Birthday

For Lily's birthday we had some aunties and uncles over for brunch. Everybody had pancakes, but Lily is not yet eating most of the ingredients in pancakes, so I tried to make pancakes out of rice porridge and squash.

She ate them, but I'm not sure she realized that they were a "special treat".

Lil's Auntie Mellie made her a beautiful album of her first year. Lily loves looking at it (recently she's been getting really excited about the pics of her Baba in it, and about the "baby" on the cover).

I made her a little onesie cut out of a BWC logo T-shirt. Thank you Uncle Balli for the photos.

In the afternoon we went to the Shrines.

We celebrated with Lily's small friends the following Monday at our usual "Mothergoose on the Loose" music activity for babies and tots. We had a fruit platter with a birthday candle.


So she's one already. Infancy is past and she's a tot. She's older than the babies I looked at when she was first born thinking how big they were and how much they could do, and feeling that it would be so long, maybe forever, before Lily was like that. I knew the whole time that I should focus on enjoying the present, savor her babyhood while I could, and between everything else there were moments when I have.