First Party

 

With Oma and Opa headed to Florida for Spring break, Jacqueline got her first birthday party a little early.  Her favorite thing was the balloons. 

  

Holding on to one balloon pointing towards the other two that were still floating high above her highchair.

  

Diving in to a gift from Oma and Opa.  Jacqueline got some beautiful clothes, and cute new toys but she enjoyed sorting the clothes in and out of the gift bags over and over again. 

 

If you have played at our house recently then you know that this little girl loves bubbles, so I got excited as she was ripping the paper off the bubble mower.  (It is already put together and we took it for a test spin yesterday.  When Jacqueline is pushing by herself she goes a little too slow to get bubbles but it makes a great sound and she loves that too, and if she walks with Daddy or I then we get a flood of bubbles. )

  

Sometimes Jacqueline just loves to be a grown-up and do it herself, here she is with cake and ice-cream,  not diving in but attempting to use her spoon. 

  

In the end she surrendered the spoon and let great-grandma Norma feed her cake and ice-cream a lot more got in her mouth that way. 

It was a fun but crazy day.  Jacqueline has several new teeth pushing through and so we had no afternoon nap on this day but still did good for the night.  It was really nice too that Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Meeuwsen could come.