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Tuesday was Riley’s first birthday (January 9). I’m not sure she was really that excited about it, but everyone else sure was!! She got tons of birthday phone calls, emails and even packages. Lucky girl!

We were still in Cambridge, which means Riley had her first bithday in the same house where I celebrated my first birthday. We had a little birthday dinner of pasta with some of her favorite veggies (squash, zucchinni), followed by Riley’s first taste of chocolate in the form of a cupcake with chocolate frosting. She didn’t seem super impressed by the chocolate, but did really enjoy the little flower sprinkles on top.

It looks like her favorite part of us singing “Happy Birthday” was the flame on her cupcake (three candles made the flame extra big). Her birthday loot also included an Elmo balloon and a red flowery stick thingy. Not too shabby!

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So I guess it’s been a year now that we’ve been writing in this blog. Not bad considering neither of us really consider ourselves to be “bloggers.” I have no idea if anyone is even still following the blog these days, but it’s nice to have it as a sort of journal of Riley’s life. Looking back through those early posts it’s amazing how quickly memories blur and fade…