{"id":252,"date":"2011-01-14T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexanderbrantley.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-01-14T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:28:24","slug":"birthday-journal-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Journal #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Alex,<\/p>\n

We held your first birthday party on Saturday, January 8th at two o’clock. \u00a0We invited a bunch of Mommy and Daddy’s friends who have children, as well as Grandma, Grandpa, Mimi, Pappa, and Meemaw. \u00a0The person who came from the furthest away to celebrate with you was Daddy’s friend, Osman, who drove up from Austin. \u00a0The people who came from the closest location to celebrate with you were our neighbors: Nana, Makayla, Mike, and Jessica.<\/p>\n

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At your party we had snack food to eat that included chips, queso, grapes, cheese, veggies, and candy. \u00a0For the activity, we had all the children decorate their own cupcakes. \u00a0Mimi and Grandma baked all the cupcakes. \u00a0Everyone seemed to have a great time doing this. \u00a0Grandma helped everyone get started.<\/p>\n

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Most of the children who were at your party were a lot older than you. \u00a0They had a lot of fun running around the house playing with the helium-filled balloons that we had as decorations. \u00a0You did not know what to make of the whole situation. \u00a0I thought you might get overwhelmed, but you just stared in amazement at all the activity going on around you.<\/p>\n

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I made your first birthday cake. \u00a0It was a two-layer strawberry cake with strawberry jam between the layers and vanilla icing on top. \u00a0You weren’t quite sure what to make of it.<\/p>\n

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Everyone sang “Happy Birthday to You” and Mommy blew out your candle. \u00a0You immediately reached a fist out and smashed into your cake. \u00a0I expected you to put your hand into your mouth, but you surprised me. You obviously did not like your hand being covered in icing. \u00a0You kept trying to wipe it off on the tray of your high chair. \u00a0You were not happy. \u00a0All you wanted was your hand clean! \u00a0You got icing all over your high chair, your arm, your leg, but surprisingly not much on your face. \u00a0After I cleaned the icing off of your hand, I fed you bites of cake, and you seemed to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t open presents at your party because you were already pretty overwhelmed by the end. \u00a0We waited until the following day for you to open all your gifts, and boy did you have fun! \u00a0You liked all your presents, but your favorites so far seem to be the workbench that Daddy and I gave you and a set of cars that Jackson and his mom, Candace, gave you.<\/p>\n

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My wishes for you for your second year of life include good health, new friends, and happiness. \u00a0You are the light of my life, Alex. \u00a0You have made your Daddy and I the happiest parents in the world. \u00a0We love you more than anything else, and we can’t wait to see what adventures you take us on next!<\/p>\n

(There are more pictures from the party and of Alex opening presents under the pictures tab.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Alex, We held your first birthday party on Saturday, January 8th at two o’clock. \u00a0We invited a bunch of Mommy and Daddy’s friends who have children, as well as Grandma, Grandpa, Mimi, Pappa, and Meemaw. \u00a0The person who came from the furthest away to celebrate with you was Daddy’s friend, Osman, who drove up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYkyR-44","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}