Happy Birthday!

Today Akemi turned one year old! In this first picture she's telling us to move the cake closer to her. When we didn't she tried to do it herself.

Of course mom and dad had to jump in the picture. She wasn't too happy about that though because she was eager to get at the cake. If truth be told, she was eager to go to bed and the cake was really for mom and dad.

I finally got around to writing her name today. When she was born we took some time deciding on her name, and by that time I had other things on my mind than writing her name. Over the year I've had a chance to see the seeds of her personality and I tried to capture some of them in this piece.