Usually I blog from my phone so long as I can get all my pictures from my phone, but in this case I have a ton of photos on my camera that I needed to upload.
As you may know, Scarlett had surgery the day before her birthday party. My mom came into town to help me out, and I can't imagine what I would've done without her here. On Scarlett's birthday I went to the church early to set up for the party and had some help from my friend, sister and brother-in-law, while my mom stayed home making tea sandwiches and holding down the fort while Scarlett napped. When it was time for the party, I went home to find Scarlett freshly bathed and all dressed in her tutu and matching onesie, even right down to her matching bow and glitter shoes. My mom had the diaper bag all packed and my sweet birthday girl had a full belly and was even strapped into her car seat and ready to go. I have literally never see Scarlett ready to leave the house when I wasn't the one who did it. My mom not only had helped prepare all the food for the party, decorated cookies, baked desserts, but let me have a break from the stuff I have done every day for the past year without imagining what it would be like to have a break. Someone fed my daughter lunch, bathed her, put lotion on her, dressed her, put her in her carseat. I just have to relive it one more time. Ok. Now for some pictures. We had the party in our church fellowship hall surrounded by friends and family including my sister and her family, my dad, Texan's mom and Nanny, and of course my mom. Sadly I made the party plans not knowing if Texan would have the day off--because his first day at his new job was only five days prior to Scarlett's birthday. And he ended up having Friday off, which was nice because he got to see Scarlett in the hospital and be there for that big milestone. So he ended up missing the party. But since I have known him he has never made a big deal out of a holiday, birthday, or otherwise. So I am not under the delusion that he lost much sleep over missing the party, especially since Scarlett won't remember that he wasn't there. I think he would've been more hurt if she had been old enough to say, "You're not coming to my birthday party, Poppa?" with a sad little face. But that won't ever happen!
The party theme was Enchanted Tea party and the colors were pink and gold. Scarlett was showered with tons of summer clothes which I cannot wait to see her in. The weather has not warmed up at all despite it being March, so I haven't been able to see her in any of them yet. But I can't complain because she is still very much in 12-mo size and the summer clothes everyone got her are 18-month. At Scarlett's 12-mo visit she was at 15% for weight and 65% for height. So, she' very tall and slender and fitting just fine in all of her 12-month clothes, which I love because I am going to be very sad to see some of her adorable winter outfits go into storage bins in the attic. I hope I have at least one more girl some day so I can see her in these same outfits. Now, onto the photos.
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