Happy 1st Birthday Kate!

Yesterday was Kate's 1st birthday. I am so grateful for my happy little girl, who by the way can hear now. She passed her hearing test with flying colors on monday. Thank goodness for those tubes to clear away all that fluid. She is a joy to have. I love her little smile and the innocence she brings into our home. She had a great day. She started off the day doing one of her favorite things....taking a bath. She decided to leave me a little present and pooped in the bathtub for the first time. Ben was quite grossed out. He couldn't believe that he ever did such a thing. Di and the kids and Mike came over for a little birthday party and dinner. We had homemade pizza, salad and cake and ice cream. Fortunately, David was on call wednesday night so was post call on thursday. He slept most of the day and woke up just in time for the party. Kate liked to tear the wrapping paper and play with the boxes. Ben loved all of her presents and looked like he was enjoying his own birthday. His favorite toy is the little stoller Di gave to Kate. It took some persuading to expain why he couldn't bring it to Kate's one year doctor's appointment this morning. Kate loved eating her little cupcake and did a pretty good job at it until she started rubbing it in her eyes. She hated the birthday hat. Unfortunately, Ben passed along his pink eye to Kate just in time for her birthday. The doctor put them both on antibiotics this morning. Hopefully, we can cure them of their ills before we pass it on to 28 cousins at our Gillett family reunion this next week. Ben, Kate and I are off to Utah tomorrow. Wish me luck on the airplane. Two toddlers...both with pink eye...one post immunizations...the other newly potty trained...a layover in Denver...flying way past bedtime...all by myself. Maybe I need more than luck. Maybe Benadryl?

Enjoy all the pictures. I just couldn't narrow them down.