On March 2nd, Tikvah joined the ranks of four of our other children: she made it alive to her first birthday. We feel pretty proud, we've only lost one...okay, just kidding, but we count them all making it as far as they have a true miracle. Have you ever met these kids' parents?
To celebrate the big day we had first birthday smoothie
and milk.
For dinner, she got her first slice of pizza,
homemade pizza.
She did not approve,
and would not even try a bite.
Grandma rescued her from the wretched pizza
and soon we were opening presents.
Our traditional one-year old gift, stuffed animal and book, was given.
Tikvah's animal is the kinkajou, so we enjoyed a reading of the book, Peeper! the kinkajou and
the other kids immediately threw her kinkajou into her crib so she could have it handy at bedtime.
There were lots of other fun gifts, but her favorite so far, has probably been this noisy, light up book from Auntie Laura.
I was just thinking a few weeks ago how we have a real shortage of noisy things around here. With five kids, a cat that won't stop meowing, and a mom who talks non stop, we need more noise. I guess that means we'll just have to cut Joe's word quota back from 10 to 5 words a day to compensate. Seriously, though, I hardly notice the thing and she really does enjoy it, at least when she can rip it out of someone else's hands to play with it.
She also got this great picture from sister Xandra of Tikvah and Xandra sitting on our white couch (kind of hard to see) with the blue wall and black bookshelf in the background. It sort of looks like a swimming pool, but if you know it's our white couch, blue wall and black bookshelf it's all very clear. And very sweet.
Kind of like a one year old kinkajou.
Happy Birthday Tikvah.
We love you and the non-pizza eating girl that you are!
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