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Happy birthday, K!

We were trying to plan out K's nap schedule and decide accordingly when we should drive to Great-Grandma's house in the Bronx for the party. "Who are we kidding?" I said. "He'll nap for twenty minutes in the morning, refuse to go down at all in the afternoon, and have a meltdown five minutes after everybody shows up." "Then why worry?" JW sensibly asked. So we didn't.

In the morning we made it to the Bronx in record time and drove up and down the Hutch for another twenty minutes so we could stretch K's nap to close to an hour. In the afternoon, ten minutes after he lay down in the basement, everyone started running up and down the stairs yelling and bringing in food for the party. I stuck him in the Beco and walked him around for forty-five minutes before he fell asleep. Twenty minutes later he woke up when we tried to put him in his crib.

Despite all this, he did great at the party. He played with everybody, happily ripped wrapping paper, and was thrilled with the big car he got as a present. When it was cake time, I made the mistake of holding him while trying to feed him. My reward was to be smeared with whipped cream -- all over my hair, neck, and sweater. (The duck cake didn't work out in the end and I ordered a strawberry cream cake. Maybe I'll make a duck cake on my birthday.)

My baby is one! I can't believe it.

Full post as published by Magic Cookie on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).