Mina turned 1 on May 5! I can't believe how incredibly fast this first year went by. I can't believe how much fun it's been either. Mina has been such a joy and has brought so much happiness to us and everyone she meets. She has grown so much. She is so smart. She's beautiful and she's funny. Well, we celebrated with practically all of her family living in Texas. Both sets of grandparents, all of her cousins, quite a few of her aunts and uncles and even some friends were there to celebrate with her. We all had a blast and I know Mina enjoyed all of the attention. We had cake, ice cream, cookies, presents and even a slide show.
This was Mina's cake and her smash cake below. We decided to buy one because Albertson's gives a free "smash" cake if it's your child's first birthday. We thought Mina would love it, but she proved us wrong. I have absolutely no idea why she didn't like making a mess of her smash cake. Oh well. We got her a cute jungle themed cake, because Mina does an impression of an elephant and this cake had an elephant. I hope I can get her doing her elephant impression on camera at some point. It's so cute.
My best friend, Jennifer and her family got Mina this adorable yellow dress for her birthday. She looked absolutely adorable in it at her party.
This is my friend, Shantiel's, baby Zoie. Zoie is a few months older than Mina and had a lot of fun helping Mina enjoy her new presents and partake of cake and cookies. What a cutie pie!
Grandpa Duncan actually smiling in a picture. Guess cute grandkids will do that to you!
Mina likes to "put on" all of her clothes by herself. So, as she opened presents that were clothing, she proceeded to try them on. She'd just set them on her head and proceed to opening more gifts. She got a couple of toy cell phones, some books, clothes and a few other toys. Mina just loves cell phones and loves her toy ones for the most part. She does know the difference between real, working cell phones and toy or dead cell phones. She does prefer the real thing.
She was very interested in the flame on the candle and tried to touch it. Dru put it out just before she was able to touch it. Then we tried to entice her into diving into her smash cake. She just wasn't having it, though. Again, I have no idea why she wasn't interested in it. Oh well. What can we do?
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