Cousin Claudia's 1st Birthday

Caroline's cousin Claudia turned a year old on February 25. She had her sweet treats birthday party on Saturday. There was more candy than you can ever imagine, unless you've been in a candy store lately.

Whoo hooo! The party girls are here! Pre-party activities included Caroline riding Claudia's 4-wheeler and a nap for Claudia just in time for the party.

Look at her go!

A couple of hours before the party. Let's get this party started!

We were trying to take pictures of all of the babies and kids at the party. This turned out to be harder than we thought.

This is definitely harder than we thought!

I think this is the best one I could come up with. As you can see, Caroline is too busy playing with her shoe to look at the multiple cameras flashing at her and the others.

Claudia trying to blow out her candle. She got pretty close to touching it.

Caroline tasting the 1 from Claudia's cake. This is probably too much sugar for her. She didn't get to eat all of it. Thank goodness or she might not have slept that night!

Jeff with Caroline and Claudia. Caroline is taking notes on what to do with her cake when her birthday comes in just 10 weeks. Apparently, you just put your hands in it and squish and make a mess (and then maybe eat some of it). Ok, I think she can handle that.

The birthday girl with her daddy. Happy 1st Birthday Claudia! We hope you had a good one. We had so much fun! It looks like you did, too!

Playing with Ginger

Ginger was the baby until Caroline came along. She has never shown a sign of jealousy, unless bringing us a toy when she thinks she's not getting enough attention counts. Ginger truly loves Caroline and Caroline loves her. Caroline is just fascinated with Ginger. She will pull up on furniture where Ginger lays and let out a scream and reach for her. So far, Caroline has only made Ginger squeal a few times from pulling her hair and ears. Ginger tolerates it very well and usually just looks at me like "when is Caroline going to take a nap?"

Ginger brings Caroline the toy so she can throw it for her. One day, she will. We are all looking forward to it.

Look how they play together. It's so funny to watch them tug toys together.

Ginger shares her toys so well and lets Caroline have her turn

Ginger waits for her to throw the toy

She looks like she wants to throw it, but just isn't sure what she wants to do with it

Does this ball taste like an orange? Sorry Caroline; it doesn't

Hey, if I throw it, will you go get it?

Who knew pillows and a coffee table could be so much fun?

Ever since Caroline started crawling and pulling up, she began to discover lots of new things. I think her most favorite new discovery is pulling pillows from the furniture and crawling through the coffee table (it's supposed to have baskets in it, but Caroline likes it better without them).

Caroline grabbing pillows. She'll grab them even if you are laying on one. If you don't let her have it, she gets mad.

Here she comes

It's almost like a little funhouse!

No more pillows! What do I do now? Now it's time to romp on them on the floor.

Who knew this could be so much fun? It's funny how it's always the simple things that are the best in life. Watch out, Ginger. She'll pull that blanket right out from under you!