Happy Birthday, Sara!

It was one year ago today that Sara was born, and we celebrated her first birthday tonight with lots of food, ice cream cake and presents.

Baa-chan and Uncle Kenichi came over for dinner, a big meal with food prepared by Tomomi and her mother, and Anri and Sara had a great time playing with Uncle Kenichi. After dinner and the opening of presents -- all clothes for Sara, and one little pop-up book -- we finally brought out the Baskin-Robbins ice cream cake and sang Happy Birthday.

Sara couldn't quite blow out the lone candle on her own, but with a little help from her big sister Anri, it was out in no time.

Anri gave Sara a present too. Anri drew a picture of Sara, with very long hair and wrote Sara's name on it in English. Below Sara's name, Anri wrote "age 1" in Japanese. There's more writing on the top right side, but nobody is reall sure what that is!

Here is the drawing. To enlarge it, just click on the image.