Daniel's First Birthday!

Finally, just a week before Daniel's one and a half year "birthday" - we are getting around to showing the pictures from his first birthday. Well, he certainly has been keeping us busy in the last few months...

Since Daniel's first birthday fell on a Sunday, we decided to have a little party and invite some guests for his big day. My parents and brother came to visit us around noon, and Luciana, a Brazilian friend, joined us with her two sons, Thales and Cédric, later in the afternoon. Jefferson decorated the apartment with balloons, I made a cheese cake (for the first time ever, not for Daniel of course, just for the guests) and my parents brought the most important party food: strawberries for Daniel - probably his most favorite food above everything else!

Of course Daniel also had his birthday candles - luckily, for when were looking for a nice "1" candle in the store, they only had "2"s, "4"s and a few higher numbers left. We had to search hard to at least find some general "Happy Birthday" candles. Of course, since these were way too many candles for his age, Daniel didn't quite manage to blow them all out at once - but he may be excused still this one time... ;-)

After the big party was over and we were all stuffed with cake, we decided to use the nice weather and celebrate some more outside. Unfortunately, my parents had to leave, since they still had a long drive home ahead of them. But the rest of us could enjoy the sunny evening - Jefferson and Thales got to play badminton and Frisbee, Cédric invented a new style of big ball badminton ;-) and Luciana and I sat in the lawn in front of our building and chatted. Daniel first investigated the grass and played a bit with a ball, but soon he decided to use the chance of everyone being busy with other stuff to take his a well-deserved nap...

The rest of the day was rather uneventful. After Jefferson and Thales had finished their badminton game several hours later ;-), Jefferson drove our guests home, while Daniel and I spent a lazy evening at home. A nice and crazy day, and a nice and crazy year; and here he is, our one year old little angle/devil... ;-)