{"id":16059,"date":"2018-08-18T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=16059"},"modified":"2018-08-26T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T15:41:01","slug":"clarissa-turns-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/18\/clarissa-turns-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarissa turns one!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday was Clarissa’s birthday. Abe and Ammon were at the father and sons campout until around 3pm, but until then Mary and Lydia were over-the-top excited to celebrate Clarissa. Both Mary and Lydia woke up early and wanted to wake Clarissa up to tell her it was her birthday. Lydia went so far as to open the door…and then Clarissa woke up. The girls spent an hour playing in her room, singing to her, and telling her over and over again that it was her birthday.<\/p>\n

After breakfast, I took Clarissa, Mary, and Lydia to go pick out balloons for Clarissa. Clarissa looooooved her balloons and the girls played with them when we came home.<\/p>\n

Then it was time for her nap. During her nap I made pizzas and baked carrot cake. I made a little smash cake for Clarissa and cupcakes for everyone else.<\/p>\n

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Around 3pm Abe, Tom, and Ammon got back from the campout. They had gone on a hike in the morning and had had a wonderful time. Ammon was cranky again and Abe had to carry him the last mile. Ammon fell asleep in his arms. Good thing Abe has been working out a ton!<\/p>\n

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When everyone was back and Clarissa was awake again, we celebrated her birthday by letting her eat pizza, singing to her, and letting her smash her cake. She appeared to enjoy that last part. We didn’t get this on camera, but at one point she leaned forward and stuck her little tongue out as if she were going to lick or bury her face in the cake, but she pulled back at the last minute and decided to stay dainty. She loooooved having everyone sing to her and kept looking around at all of us to make sure all eyes were on her. She clapped a lot for herself. It was totally adorable. In these pictures you can see her scanning the room amazed that EVERYONE is looking at her. As the fourth child, she is just not used to this level of attention. It was so cute.<\/p>\n

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