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Clara's 1st Birthday Party

Today we celebrated Clara Rae's first birthday with family and friends with a party at home. She still is not feeling herself unfortunately, but for being sick, she did pretty well.

Big sister helped her open her gifts...










She has a rash all over her body which you can kind of see in this pic. Being too warm seems to exacerbate it, so we took her clothes off for a bit to cool down.









Our friends Amanda and Adria

Time for cake!










oof! Time for a bath.

Shenanigans with Adria...it was so cute to watch them together.






With the birthday girl

Thank you to everyone who was able to come celebrate with us. I wish she would have felt better for her first birthday and all, but I think she had as good of a time as we could have expected, given not feeling well. Happy birthday, sweetheart! I will post another birthday-specific post tomorrow.

Comments

theweckerlys said…
Oh sweetie! So wish we could have been there to celebrate. I love all the party details. Perfect. I hope she is feeling better soon. Sweet pics with Adria.
Happy Birthday Clara!!! Looks like it was a great party even if she wasn't feeling so well.
Love Dan and Tammy
Amanda Lamm said…
Love the tummy; love the pics!

-Amanda N.

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