Party!!

Today was Krassi's first birthday party!

 As expected, he did not show any recognition whatsoever of the significance of the day for him, despite having been through it with Owen and Leah, and sharing the day today with Rinnah. But that's okay. It was still fun for us to celebrate for him. Ten is a big deal!!

We helped him open presents.

This was actually the low point of his day for a few moments until we realized that he was rather distressed by the rattling of the tissue paper - particularly a plastic-y one. We didn't realize at first that his laugh was his nervous uncertain laugh instead of his this is cool laugh, but as we got "the lip" in between as he would drop it and laugh and we'd pick it back up again, we quickly figured out what was going on. Reuben was happy to help unwrap the rest of his gifts for him. ;)

The gifts themselves, however, were great! Lucky boy got not only duct tape, but also painter's tape as gifts! (Among other things.) What a great day for this big 10 year old!

Don't you love the glee on his face as he holds those rolls of tape? He is very pleased with his new toys.

After getting some distress at lunch (coming too soon after presents??) we debated what we should do about cake and singing and all that. We decided to take our chances - after all - you never get a second chance to have everyone sing to you at your first birthday party!

Pretty non-plussed at first

But he liked it when we all started singing to him!

And because birthday parties are not supposed to be distressing, we didn't even bother trying to offer him cake, but went straight to the ice cream, which he handled like a real trooper. ;) Eight months ago - even three or four months ago! - the cold of ice cream was more than this boy would tolerate. It's been slow progress, but he will now enjoy a full scoop of ice cream at a sitting!

Rinnah, on the other hand, made up for any enthusiasm that was lacking on Krassi's part as we celebrated her third birthday today as well. ;) We had pink frosting on a pink cake, and pink ice cream, and when I asked her what kind of chips she wanted for her party, her answer was "pink!" We had to settle for purple (blue corn chips) which thankfully was good enough.