Getting messy isn't always fun

Our friens Laura took pictures of Gia for her first birthday.  Laura has a special eye for photography, and she & her son Blake were excited to come with us to photograph Gia.  They brought all kinds of objects, like a tamborine, so that Blake could get her to smile.  I got the "smash cake" idea from my friend Kelli Esler (she did the same thing with her girls), so I bought a $2.50 oversized cupcake at Smith's so that we could have some fun.

Gia's first reaction was to grab the decoration on top.  She had no initial interest in the actual cupcake.

Then, the disaster happened.  Gianna swipped her foot across the top of the cake, covering the foot with icing.  She felt extremely violated by this icing, and proceeded to tell us so with an angry cry.  

It was cold and Gia wanted milk, not cake.  But in the end, we finally helped her understand that she did want cake, by feeding it to her.

By the end, she got into it and enjoyed eating the cake.  I got the blue icing so that it would show up well in the pictures.  However, this meant that she ened up looking like a smurf.  But a very cute smurf!  I hope that this was good practice for her so that when she eats her real cake on her birthday, she will know what to do with it.  Thank you Laura for capturing these memories for us!  They are priceless!