Addison J. Barat: Happy Birthday Addison!

We can't believe our baby girl is a year old! July 2nd 2008 easily marks the best day of our lives to date, and we were so excited when we woke up this morning to greet Addison on her first birthday. She slept until 6:45am, so that in itself was a huge treat for us - WE had to wake HER up. We immediately turned on the video camera to capture her first moments as a one-year-old, and took her downstairs to check out our gift to her - her very own play kitchen! She was sleepy, but we think she liked it.

Addison spent the day at Grandma's house and DJ and I headed over there after work for a birthday celebration. Grandma had fun pink decorations up everywhere and balloons with Addison's name on them. Addison feasted on meat loaf, scallop potatoes and broccoli salad. Talk about comfort food! She loved it, couldn't get enough. She topped it off with a strawberry, blueberry and kiwi tort with vanilla ice cream. Her first taste of true, straight-up sugar surely won't be forgotten, but will NOT be a regular occurence. Only special occasions like this one. :) Well, that's the plan anyway...

Auntie Shana comes in later this evening (11:55pm to be exact), so stay tuned for pics from a fun weekend with her. The weather promises to be pleasant. Happy birthday to Addison, and happy 4th of July!

Patty-cake and the new kitchen!