Our darling little girl turned 1 today.  I thought I would make her a pink caterpillar cake, since for a while she seemed to move around like an inchworm.  And I had found a cake a while back I thought would be so cute, but it was green and blue for a boy, so why not just make it pink for a girl?  Here’s the birthday girl:

And the cake:

She was very excited about the candle:

She actually tried to blow on the candle.  No idea how she knew to do that!

Can I touch it?

Cutting the first piece… Mackenzie gets the biggest one.

Her first taste of chocolate cake.  She enjoyed it!

Ok, I’m done!

Tired after a long day:

It still amazes me that my baby is 1.  On Friday (2 days ago) she started pulling herself up, and has started to figure out how to adjust her feet once she’s standing.  (Before now she would be in a totally awkward position and scream for someone to come help her.)  So progress… little by little she’s getting stronger, and I feel totally ok with where she is.

She continues to be quite the people person, and still has yet to have any ounce of stranger anxiety.  She loves anyone and everyone, loves to be held, and absolutely loves to be the center of attention (and will be extremely loud until she has everyone looking at her!).

Mackenzie, you have brought such joy to our lives this past year, I love you peanut!