Eliza's Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Eliza's 1st birthday with a family party.
Eliza greets her guests.

In Korean tradition, on a child's first birthday, you hold a Toljabee ceremony where different items are placed before the child (book = scholar, knife = chef, rice = wealth, needle & thread = long life, ruler = talented with her hands) and the child's future is predicted upon what she chooses. We did it with both boys at their first birthday parties, and so we did it with Eliza.
She heads toward the items ...
and chooses the rice (wealth)! Jess and I figure this means early retirement for us.

With Uncle Joseph.

After lunch it was time for presents.

I'd underestimated the toll that her one-year shots she'd gotten the day before would take, and she was very sleepy by this point.

Looking like she might want to go to sleep with her new glow worm on her new "scooter."

No bedtime, though, before cake, of course!

So when we gave her her "smash cake," she was really quite preplexed as to why, instead of being put in her bed, she was being set in front of this big strange, round thing.

"Ooohh, I'm supposed to eat it?"

And she'd had enough.

She exited her party early in favor of a nap, but the rest of us continued celebrating for her.

Happy birthday, Baby!