How 'bout some cake?!

We celebrated Rebecca's 1st birthday yesterday with Ben's family - I was so happy to see Becca enjoying her presents and cake. We had a yummy dinner and then we opened presents. Becca's Grandma and Grandpa Dangerfield got her lots of great new clothes, including new matching swimsuits for Emma and Becca, which I LOVE! It's fun having 2 girls in a row, so that they can have matching clothes sometimes. It makes them doubly cute! Ben and I got her her first toothbrush and a couple of new toys as well. After presents we did cake and it was hillarious! First of all, while we were singing Happy Birthday to her, she started screaming because her cake was too far away for her to eat - she was like "stop singing and let me eat!!" The first thing she did when she got her cake in front of her was stick her whole mouth on it. It was cute. For the cake, we decided on everyone getting their own mini bundt cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes. For Emma's first birthday she got her own little bundt cake as well. They are super yummy so we keep going back for many of our birthday events. It was fun all having our own little cake, including Becca of course. She loved it! We were laughing at the difference in how Becca eats versus Emma. Emma has always been a much messier eater and Becca tends to be much more meticulous in her eating. She like to make sure as much as possible actually gets her mouth and even licks her fingers and hands so as not to waste too much. Emma, however, just demolishes her food in an attempt to eat it - and on her first birthday most of it ended up on the floor or all over her face and hair and arms (as you can see in the picture to the right). Becca's cake actually stayed nicely intact, even to the very end, with a relatively clean wedge taken out of one side, and considering she ate it with her hands she kept herself quite tidy. Emma, even last night, smashed up her entire cake somehow in the process of eating it. Rather amusing, I thought, to notice these differences in our girls.



I took Becca to her 1 year well check this morning. Here are the stats:
Height: 27.5" (25th%)
Weight: 16 lbs 13 oz (10th%)
Head Circ: 18" (75th%)
Once again, I was taken aback at how small she is - I always thought Emma was small growing up, but she was over 18 lbs at least at her one year mark. I thought my kids were supposed to get progressively bigger each time, not smaller. Anyway, I've been anxious to get Becca's carseat turned around, but I can't do that till she's 20lbs. I'm guessing that'll be when she's like 2!