Happy 1st Birthday to ME!

So, yesterday was my BIRTHDAY! I didn't really know what that meant most of the day. Mama kept singing to me and getting big smiles on her face. Papa kept talking to me about it. But I still didn't get it...until...the people started showing up...and they had presents! And then there was a cake and everybody sang the birthday song to me! And then we played with all my new toys and books! All of us, grown ups and kids alike! YAY! How much fun is that! Mama says I have to wait a whole year to have another birthday again, but she said (with a twinkle in her eye and a grin on her face) that something called Christmas is coming really soon and it's almost as fun as a birthday...sometimes BETTER! WOW! I'm not sure I believe it!

Here I am sitting in front of the birthday cake Mama made for me. She used a chocolate cake recipe that GranSmoky got from her Mama, my great Grandma Frances. Our friend Lindsay let Mama borrow a pan that was in the shape of a giant cupcake - that was pretty cool. You can see me in this picture, all my friends are singing to me and I'm contemplating whether they are in tune or not...they were!

Mama took a little bit of the cake and made a special little "K" cake for me to eat after everybody was done singing and Mama helped me blow out the candles...and I did eat it! (We have really cute video of all of this, but it is on Papa's camera and we need his help to get it on the blog.)

Here's an unedited video of all my friends singing to me (from Mama's camera). It's not the greatest video, but boy was is fun to have all those people singing, and the cake had candles on it and they were on fire! That was really cool!

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