Sunday, May 20, 2007

Happy Birthday Hannah!!

Happy birthday, Hannah! Today, we had a birthday party for Hannah. It was a small event. But we actually started the celebrating yesterday when we went out to our favorite Chinese restaurant in her honor. Our waiter was actually from China (Shanghai), and was pleased to let us butcher his language just a bit at dinner. You could tell Hannah was a little intrigued when he spoke Mandarin to her.
Today, we went to church, and Hannah stayed in the church nursery without us for the first time. She loves hanging out with the other babies, and with all the activity, she didn't even miss us too much. But, since she didn't bother with a nap, we felt it best to go straight home. After dinner, we let her open presents first. She received a book, some clothes, and a very noisy popcorn popper. She mostly liked the wrapping paper and the bows! She was quite a pro at tearing paper, though, and did not need much encouragement to open the gifts. Now keeping the paper out of her mouth was a whole different story!
After presents, we had cake. We were all prepared for Hannah to get majorly messy. However, she put her fingers in the cake, and started to fuss. She wasn't sure what to do with the pink sticky stuff. I tried to help her with a bite from a fork, but she didn't like that much either. She gagged and spit out the cake. Yuck! After that, she sat and held the fork, but didn't want to try and eat another bite. Try as we did, she wouldn't have anything else to do with that lovely piece of cake in front of her.
That was all the mess that she made. Jeremiah ended up eating her cake for her...it was a real hardship for him, you know.

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