04 February 2010

Alexander's 1st Birthday

We celebrated Alexander's birthday two days early with Ryan's family.
This is Alexander's birthday cake. It was a carrot cake with strongly flavored orange frosting... not a recipe I'll repeat. Benjamin decorated it very liberally with the sprinkles, which didn't help the texture because the sprinkles made it rather crunchy.
It doesn't look like Alexander knows quite what to do with the cake in front of him... Is it animal, mineral, or vegetable?
Xander smash!!!! It looked like he was making meatloaf. I don't think he fed any of it to himself, but he did enjoy playing with the cake.
I took Alexander to get his photos taken on his birthday as the tradition goes. I dropped Benjamin off at Merrick and Malachi's before hand which I'm thinking was a mistake. Maybe Benjamin could have made Alexander smile. It didn't help that he fell asleep on the way to the photo studio. Alexander has such sensitive skin. He has a red mark on his forehead from when I changed his shirt.

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