{"id":1896,"date":"2007-05-14T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/kates-first-birthday\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T14:33:00","slug":"kates-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/kates-first-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate&#8217;s First Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the day before reading about the extravagant (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birthdayswithoutpressure.org\/\">ridiculously over the top<\/a><\/span>) birthday ideas and &#8220;tips from parents&#8221; in Parenting magazine (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">read: trashy rag<\/span>), we had a completely non-eventful birthday evening for Kate that was perfect.  <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RkhzXpWvXXI\/AAAAAAAABw0\/2Nyetq4EtBA\/s1600-h\/IMG_5666.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RkhzXpWvXXI\/AAAAAAAABw0\/2Nyetq4EtBA\/s400\/IMG_5666.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064424631053540722\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We got the kids early from school, picked up a cake from what was available in the counter from our local bakery (chocolate buttercream; I&#8217;d have preferred almond), played together at home, walked up the block to the neighborhood toy store for Will to pick out a toy for his sister, and then invited the girls next door over to sing Happy Birthday and watch Kate smash cake in her high chair.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RkhzYJWvXYI\/AAAAAAAABw8\/89ewTVdWwWM\/s1600-h\/IMG_5678.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RkhzYJWvXYI\/AAAAAAAABw8\/89ewTVdWwWM\/s400\/IMG_5678.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064424639643475330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My regret is that we didn&#8217;t just do it outside and hose the kids down afterward.  They would have LOVED it &#8212; and the pictures would have been better. <br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RkhzYZWvXZI\/AAAAAAAABxE\/Q2Opp31_iig\/s1600-h\/IMG_5695.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RkhzYZWvXZI\/AAAAAAAABxE\/Q2Opp31_iig\/s400\/IMG_5695.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064424643938442642\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Both kids were pretty gooey when it was all done.  Not that they minded: they LOVE playing together in the shower with their tub crayons from Clare!<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RkhzYpWvXaI\/AAAAAAAABxM\/h4kMsYYahtM\/s1600-h\/IMG_5720.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RkhzYpWvXaI\/AAAAAAAABxM\/h4kMsYYahtM\/s400\/IMG_5720.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064424648233409954\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Happy First Birthday to our Sweet BabyCakes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the day before reading about the extravagant (read: ridiculously over the top) birthday ideas and &#8220;tips from parents&#8221; in Parenting magazine (read: trashy rag), we had a completely non-eventful birthday evening for Kate that was perfect. 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