Just around the time of her first birthday, Piper started to boldly walk small lengths of the floor! She beams with pride at her ventures, and likes to walk to Mom or Dad. She is not yet toddling everywhere yet.
Piper's 1st birthday party took place on Saturday 21 June 2014 from 11am-2pm at a local church hall in Tawa, the suburb in which we live.
Family members drove down from up the coast, and friends journeyed in from over the valley. In all, there were predominantly little boys in attendance, though 3 brave girls played alongside 13 or so lads! Above is 2-year-old Leo Lawton, the son of Chris's brother Richard.
Chris bravely and wonderfully lead hours of games for the tikes and adults, often pitting adults against kids by involving them in similar challenges, but with the adults bearing the extra burden of a handicap (usually having to wear boxing gloves or dress in a hat, coat, and scarf before starting their leg of the relay. Hehe.).
A hungry little Noah Smith, Chris's sister Liz's (the firefighter)'s son awaits sausages and homemade soup for lunch!
Chris talks with his brother-in-law Louis, a painter, and Richard listens with Leo at his knee. We don't often get together, so it was lovely to spend time!
Here is Josh Van Rijs, the eldest child in the sizable Van Rijs clan from our church.
Josh seems the sensitive, inquisitive intellectual, while his second oldest brother, Tim, nearly beat the pinata to death. I see him as a future Marine. Piper seems to smile most at Tim :)
This hand-crafted fly pinata, the larger in a set of two insect specimens, hung menacingly over the proceedings until the time of his inevitable demise!
Though each day was hard work, we are so thankful to the Lord for Piper's life and health this year. We rejoice in the joy and blessing she brings to many with her sweet smiles and loving personality. Praise the Lord!
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