Birthday cake, new teeth, the zoo, and some visitors from England!

BFF's Georgie and Poppy playing as usual

Poppy made a friend at the zoo

Awwwww

A cold day at the zoo, with a little rain & snow = not very crowded :)

Loving this new toothy grin

I am proud to say I actually made this cake! The theme was Baby Einstein. I used a Wilton sports ball pan, 3 different flavors of cake mixes, Wilton food coloring to create the brightly colored frosting, and licorice and suckers to create the face & antennae, with cupcakes for feet. Tasted great, too! (word to the wise: lemon cake does not set up very well in cake molds!!)

giving loves to one of the baby dolls she got for her birthday

Starting to get tired of all the present unwrapping...

Enjoying her birthday pizza

Just talkin' on the phone!

This purple frosting took forever to clean up!!

Playing with the toy giraffe from the zoo

Chasing the boys

Here are a few pics from the fun little party we had for Poppy on the Saturday after her birthday, as well as some pics from the zoo trip we took on her actual birthday. Paul's dad and stepmom were here in town to celebrate, so she had lots of fun getting reacquainted (she was only 2 months old last time they came over!). They helped us out babysitting, and a huge thank you for the handy repairs Dave made around our house as well as the lovely meals they cooked (yorkshire pudding with roast beef & roasted potatoes, Sue's chili con carne and Dave's famous spaghetti, mmmmmm...) and the toys & clothes they brought over for Poppy!
Poppy's stats at her one-year doctor's appointment were right in line with what they've always been: average height and weight, and above-average head size, hee hee! She is healthy as ever, and cuter by the day, although she seems to be losing her baby cheeks & baby fat already. We were comparing her teeth now to her teeth in the previous post, and boy what a difference a month makes! She has 6 full teeth now, and yesterday we noticed another one has popped through on the bottom (explains a lot...)! She chatters incessantly, claps and points at everything, and can even say certain things, like "Jaja" (Georgie), "Mama", "Dada", and can bark like a dog if you point to one in a book (doesn't sound much like a dog, but it's really cute)!
She loves the the baby dolls and books she got for her birthday, as well as some new shoes, sunglasses, toothbrush and ladybug suitcase she got from grandma & grandpa, aunts & uncles and cousins. Cousin Maia helped her open most of her gifts (let's be honest, does Poppy really care at this point?), and Edison and Cullen just enjoyed playing with each other! She also got a little car/bike thing that Paul's dad & stepmom gave her on her birthday that she LOVES, which is both good and bad. Good because it is our new anti-crying tool, bad because if we leave it in the living room she is constantly trying to climb onto the thing. So far her favorite thing to do is chase Georgie in it. Surprisingly, even Georgie seems to enjoy this game.
All in all, a fun birthday month!!