Sofia's 1st Birthday Party

We had our first "kid" table. I can't wait for Sofia to be able to join her cousins for dinner (but in no time, P will be with us while the little girls are at their own table ;)

Sofia's birthday dinner. We were supposed to have soup, but I accidentally cooked away all the precious broth I'd made from scratch (and with our food limitations there's no popping over to the store to buy a carton of broth option here...) At the last minute, I decided we'd have tacos/burritos.

Sofia in her first birthday crown!

Uncle Bric played Sofia her first birthday song. I hope he'll play for her next birthday too!

All the one year olds we've sang happy birthday to this fall have done the same thing Sofia did... Go straight for the flame!

Sofia's thinking, Ice cream! Now this is what I am talking about!!

Can't waste a single drop of that ice cream. Some will even lick it off their dresses!

And somehow our baby turned one. 

Panda Halloween

This was the one single photo I caught of Sofia the Panda sitting still. Her cousin, however, sat exactly like that the whole time Sofia squirmed.

Sofia is One!

Somebody small and cute turned one over the weekend! We celebrated the whole weekend through too! One year of being parents to this wonderful one year old. Daddy brought her out to her first birthday present from us - a repainted kitchen set that I have worked on for a month.

(Notice the doors hadn't been reattached at this point... Baby girl has since gotten doors for her kitchen cupboards!)

I decided it would be a fun tradition to do birthday candles in special birthday pancakes. This year's pancakes were pumpkin pancakes. They were a big hit!

Sofia wanted to touch the fire.

And then eat the whole stack of pancakes right from her plate!

We spent Saturday doing some birthday party errands, watching the K-State game, and opening some presents.

Her first coin from Grandma Mimi. She was so adorable holding onto it and checking it out!

One of the awesome gifts from Uncle Ben, Aunt Desi, Tristan, and Khloe. She's a big fan of that panda!

Opening presents from Nana and Papa...

While they watch from Kansas through video chatting (which was an awesome way for them to be a part of Sofia's first birthday!)

Loving the bucket of shapes. (And by the way Nana and Papa, she's warming up to the winding animal noise toy. She touched it yesterday, and today she played with it for a while as I pulled the lever to make the animal noises.)

Saturday evening was spent celebrating Sofia's birthday buddy, her cousin P, and Sunday evening was her birthday dinner. More photos to come soon!!

Pumpkin Patch

Sofia and I went to our first pumpkin patch today on Sauvie Island just north of Portland. It was cool and muddy but so much fun! Sofia played with pumpkins and climbed all over hay bails. Next year, she'll be running around and helping find the perfect pumpkin.