Celebrating a Little Girl's One Year Old Birthday!

A birthday party!

The one year old birthday is pretty important in our North America culture.

We were invited to our grand niece - Harper's one year old birthday party last weekend to celebrate her very first birthday!

Hi, Dad, I love my birthday cake!

We got there around 2:30p.m. in time to catch Harper cutting  her birthday cake. 

Grandpa and the birthday girl!

 The party was held at the party room of the parents' downtown condo, a beautiful and intimate setting for a celebration with family and  friends.












There were a lot of guests at the party. Most of the uncles, aunties, granduncles and grand aunts, friends of both parents braced the cold,  made an effort and attended the little girl's milestone event.

"Cookie Monster, stay away from my yuummmmmy Cake!"

We could see that the birthday girl was having a good time, really enjoying her cake!

Birthday party - a family event

After the birthday cake was cut and served, guests were invited to go for a dip in the condo pool if they brought their bathing suits and would like to splash around for a while with their little ones.











 We stayed around in the party room and caught up with people we had not seen for a little while.

Busy opening gifts with Mom

Then the favourite part of the party - opening gifts! Guests were asked to sit, open the gift they brought  and post with the birthday girl and had pictures taken with her.


Gifts were piled high on the table for this little birthday girl who could barely walk nor talk. But her smile was endearing!

Grandma, what's in that gift bag?

Harper's eyes sparkled and the way she reached into the gift packages, she really knew that this was her special day!











There were numerous birthday presents brought to congratulate Harper's first birthday.

She received many nice and generous gifts.

H. got a toy piano as a birthday gift

Among the gifts Harper received was a toy piano.

The adults were just as interested in the toys!

Judging from the interest displayed by some of the guests, I think the guests liked the little piano as much as the one year old Harper! 

The birthday girl loved the picnic set!

Some interesting birthday gifts for the little one!

One of the gifts that seemed to have captured the birthday girl's attention was a picnic set that came in a plastic picnic basket containing forks, cups, plates, play food items such as a sandwich, cookies, crackers etc. It even came with its very own kid size picnic tablecloth ready to be enjoyed!


As soon as it was set up and spread on the floor for her, Harper started grabbing things from the plate, trying and biting into the plastic food and playing with the various pieces.

Kids do like their toys!

Knowledge is Power! I am starting early!

Evidently, the birthday girl also liked books too!
Harper got some books among the gifts she received.  Right away, she enjoyed being read to by a couple of the guests.

Amid the excitement of opening so many gifts, I was surprised to see this one year old sitting still, focusing on the pages and pouring over the content of the book.

She will be one heck of a scholar one day! 

Gifts are always special, especially those that are made personally by the guests. There were two such gifts.

One of the birthday gifts was a black and white pencil portrait of Harper by one of the invited guests. It was a stunning piece!

Another one was a special cake resembling  a floral arrangement made by Harper's aunt, Wendy.

The cake looked too pretty to be consumed!

Hello, grandma and grandpa and my aunt Wendy!

Harper is a very lucky girl!   There were her wonderful parents, grandparents on both sides, extended families and her parents' long time friends celebrating with her at her one year old party.

I love my grandma!

She is surrounded by numerous loving family members, relatives, and her parents' close friends lending her support and guidance as she starts into the next stage of her life as a little tot!

Happy Birthday and Best Wishes to you, Harper!

R.T.
Toronto