Birthday Brunch

Even after we postponed this intentionally small gathering, the second snow storm still managed to keep over half of our guests from being able to attend. Regardless, we had a great time talking with friends while munching on egg bake and fruit salad, singing to our new "toddler", and opening a few sweet gifts. No theme is required (O.K. is only ONE, after all), but I like having a direction, so we decided on robots. John painted this sign:

I made from-scratch banana cupcakes with butter-cream frosting, complete with handmade (or at least hand-cut and pasted) robot cupcake toppers.


With the four year-old son of my friend, Christine, in mind, I decided to put together an edible robot craft. Unfortunately, she and her sweet boys were some of the unlucky guests impeded by snow. The guests who did come humored me by making edible robots anyway.

The Robot Assembly station.


Patrick made a pretty impressive quadra-bot.


After coffee, brunch, and robot-building, we sang and ate cake.




Pete and Melissa (with robots)


Sweet sweet Sunny (already 4 and a half months!) and her mom, Susie


Robert and Oscar play with his new "crashing hammer".
(Thank you, Patrick and Robert!)


Many thanks to all of our friends who've supported us as new parents, and helped celebrate Oscar's first birthday with us (even those who could only be there in spirit)!