Opening birthday presents

After the Christmas experience - when we seemed to rush and overwhelm Katherine with opening so many presents all at the same time - we decided to pace it this time and it turned out so perfect! Highly recommend this technique to all parents, if you can make your kid wait a few days to open all the gifts. We let her open one or two presents per day, which really gave her the chance to take it all in and enjoy each item at a slower pace.

For some of them I took little videos or pictures of her opening and playing with the things. It was the cutest thing. After a few days she got the idea and would ask me 'open another birthday present please'. So cute!

I feel so grateful to all our friends for the wonderful gifts! She loves every single item and we were finally able to rotate out some of the infant toys I still had out for her, mainly just because I didn't know what kind of big girl toys to get her... You know how you can get in a rut and forget that your baby is now a big kid and not a baby anymore...