A Day Fit for an Irish Princess

I love that Ava Kate's birthday fell during Spring Break this year so we were all able to spend the day together. When she woke up at 4:30am Justin and I went in to get her out of bed and we sang Happy Birthday to her for the first of many times. At first she started crying when we began to sing and then she just looked at us like what are you doing singing at 4:30 in the morning. We all went back to bed for a while and when we woke up again at 8:00 we sang to her again and this time she was much more excited about our singing and even clapped for us. Justin went and got us chocolate donuts from AM, a favorite of Ava's and mine. If you have followed my blog for a while you will know this was a craving that started while I was pregnant with her and unfortunately it has never left and now Ava too loves chocolate donuts. Sadly she is cutting two teeth so she didn't feel all that well on her birthday so we spent the morning at home playing together and resting. After lunch we headed to the paint your own pottery studio to design a special birthday plate for Ava that she can use every year to eat her birthday meals on. The process of designing and painting the plate took much longer than I had expected so once we got the design and colors selected and started and her footprint on the bottom of the plate Ava and I went home for a nap while Justin finished up the painting. She is blessed to have a daddy that will do this kind of thing and not only that but is quite the artist. We baked some Babycakes strawberry cupcakes and had family over to help us finish our day of celebrating our little Irish princess one year birthday!