a belated birthday post
On July 7, we celebrated Aundrea's first birthday! We can hardly believe our baby is a year old! We celebrated with lots of family and cake! Kevin's parents stayed at our place for a few days, and Aundrea's great-grandparents on the Anderson side stopped by to visit on her birthday. I (Stephanie) made a mini cake and cupcakes for Aundrea's actual birthday. The big cake was yet to come.... Aundrea couldn't blow the candle out, but she enjoyed looking at it. After a brief contemplation, Aundrea decided to attack her cake face-first. An unfortunate side-effect of this method was frosting up the nose! She thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless When she'd had enough of eating cake, Aundrea took to painting with it and sharing it with Otto. Licking the beaters 2 days later, while Mommy made the big cake. Aundrea thinks it's fun to share and "feed" us. We'll see how long that lasts. On Sunday, July 10 we hosted a joint birthday party for Aundrea and...