...So That Others May Read: Annie's Birthday!

These are a little mixed up so bear with me: This is the one year money shot. Face full of cake, totally happy about what's going on.

This is me after getting the living room ready for Annie's birthday party while she was napping. As you can tell, I was only mildly excited.

Annie with her new doll. She seems to dig it but there's something she loved even more.

DRUMS!!! Oh, how she loves the drums. She walks around with the sticks and is constantly beating on the drums. She hasn't mastered how exactly to hit them so right now it's more like she's stabbing them, but still. I've never seen her put up such a fight when we had to leave.

The cake. Kim did a great job with a white cake and mixed fruit jello inside it. Tasted very tropical and turned out kind of pink which is what she was going for.

Whale sharks. From when we all went to the aquarium on the 12th for her actual birthday.

All Annie wanted to do was run around and meet strangers (and touch the fish).

During the party when she first discovered balloons.
Annie with the drums.

Annie's baby and rockhopper penguin.

Annie with her rockhopper at the penguin.

Looking up. We were in a tube looking up at the sharks and rays and all that.

They have this screen where all these fish are swimming and if you touch one you can get information about it. I touched one randomly and it turned out to be this. Fate?

The shark I touched.

This very Nemo looking creature is actually named Deepo and Annie didn't really know what to make of him but seemed to like him once we were around him for a bit. Me, I'm not a HUGE fan of costumed strangers touching me.