Tomorrow is Jane's first birthday. With my usual inimitable sanity, I have made party hats for the party we are not having.
Note that there are in fact more hats than people to wear them. Also, I took long enough at the store choosing the paper that I made the baby cry. Excellent parenting.
Steve and I put the hats on ourselves, of course, while she was sleeping.
Soignée.
Admirably focused on his work.
Then I put everything away before Jane could wake up and participate in any way herself. No birthday hats for you, baby. It's not your birthday yet, now is it? When she's older, we should make sure to ride her Christmas bicycle for her every night in Advent, and dogear the pages of all her books before she can read them. It's just more thoughtful that way.
Those bows are prodigious! Happy birthday to Jane!
Posted by: adriana | 03/01/2011 at 08:20 PM
What is a Christmas bicycle? Happy birthday to Jane! A momentous birthday, this passing from zero to one.
Posted by: The Modesto Kid | 03/01/2011 at 09:04 PM
Oh I see, a bicycle that one receives as a Christmas present.
Posted by: The Modesto Kid | 03/01/2011 at 09:05 PM
I just hope you said "Kid, this ain't your night" as you put the hats away.
Posted by: Kevin | 03/01/2011 at 10:28 PM
Dogear pages and underline important phrases. Or maybe even random ones. "Esquimo."
Posted by: snarkout | 03/01/2011 at 10:31 PM
I like the curvaceous contours of those scissors. Yowza.
Posted by: ben w | 03/02/2011 at 12:02 AM
You can eat most of her cake while she's napping and leave just a wedge to put a candle on. Triangles are more interesting than circles, anyway.
Posted by: anapestic | 03/02/2011 at 10:31 AM
Happy Birthday Jane from her birth day companion Freddie!
Posted by: Betty M | 03/02/2011 at 03:25 PM
What more could a birthday baby ask for, than two such fetchingly behatted parents?
Posted by: jms | 03/02/2011 at 03:34 PM
I now get hives at the sight of construction paper.
Posted by: oudemia | 03/02/2011 at 07:29 PM
It's card stock! Because I'm a lunatic.
Posted by: redfox | 03/03/2011 at 01:12 AM
Happy birthday, Jane!
We had way more hats than there were people willing to wear them, but they've turned out to be a favorite toy for the three months that have passed since his party, and they do occasionally get accidentally destroyed, so it's worked out.
Posted by: Jessica | 03/03/2011 at 06:40 AM
Truly excellent pictures! Happy birthday Miss Jane, and a congratulatory toast to the parents on this happy day. Chin-chin gin-gin!
Posted by: Liz | 03/03/2011 at 04:03 PM
Happy birthday, Jane, you hatless waif!
Posted by: Elsa | 03/03/2011 at 08:34 PM