Sunday, March 2, 2008

Gavin's Birthday Cake #2

In the Peterson tradition, we cannot stop with just one celebration. Despite all of us having coughs and colds, we powered through to make Gavin's birthday special.

Luckily for us, he has just realized that table food is actually quite tasty (and hasn't puked in about a week when eating). It started with pizza on Wednesday and spread to honeydew, peas, pears and meat by Saturday. It gave me hope that maybe Gavin would not only touch his cake, but actually put some in his mouth (and not throw up).

Gavin was very methodical and serious about destroying his cake. He ate much of the piece that we gave him last night . . . but, he was much more artistic with today's new whole cake.





He was very willing to share with his sister. And . . . by the way . . . it was Autumn's idea to strip down. As soon as she saw Gavin sitting with just his diaper for a cake-smashing session . . . she couldn't resist and declared, "I have to get naked and help Gavin." And, so she did (nothing can stop her once she sets her mind to stripping down and/or getting in the bath).

And, of course, this naked, cake-eating-smashing fun was followed by a bubbly bath for two.

8 comments:

  1. How cute, it looks like he really got into it. Happy Birthday Gavin!

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  2. How sweet is this? I love that she wanted to strip down and help him out -- and I love even more that you have such fun photos of the event! Happy Birthday Gavin - and Autumn - and Jeff! :o)

    Thanks for the invitation to read your blog -- it's amazing that we can live a few houses away and NOT be able to chat much...it's fun to be able to catch up with you this way...until summer at least...when we all come out of hibernation again, lol. :o)

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  3. Wendy . . . it didn't even don on me until today that you didn't have access to our blog. I've been reading yours for months now! Yours is so sweet . . . it's one of my favorites. You inspire me (and make me feel terrible for not doing more). It is insane that we don't see each other (or anyone) all winter. Again, you have motivated me . . . I will begin planning our next roundezvous.

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  4. Your kids are just so cute! I can't believe Gavin is a year old! It is amazing how time goes by so fast. We need to get the kids together to play!

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  5. Karen, your pictures turned out WAY cute and very fun. I just love his facial expressions, its priceless.

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  6. Where did you take these? They are way cute!

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  7. I used some of Becky's white roll butcher paper and sat Gavin and Autumn down on the kitchen floor. I can't claim the idea . . . Rachel did this for Emma's first birthday. Of course, Emma was cheesing it up and Gavin was extremely serious about the whole thing. I need you and Rachel to help me with lighting. The photos actually look much better on my computer because I reduced the quality for the blog. Either way . . . I don't know what I'm doing with shadows, etc. I need some lessons.

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  8. Hmmmm.... we'll have to shoot together! Ligthing is for sure a hard thing to learn! I'm looking into getting my first set of studio lights right now!

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