At last...

Hana's very first birthday party. She had a blast. 

Pink strawberry butterfly cake...

An unexpected guest- the three year old daughter of the restaurant owner. She was really cute.. but extremely offended that we hadn't brought all of the presents for her.

 Presents...

Hana said I had to include this picture even though it was blurry, because she was SO EXCITED about this dress that she got from her great grandma. It is so cute. She loved it.

After our injera and cake were eaten we headed to a butterfly garden.  My camera was dead so I didn't take any pictures, but I kind of could have lived there. Plus, blue morpho butterflies were in season, so the air was full of huge, brilliantly blue butterflies. Hana loved them and was desperate to have one land on her.  Like 6 landed on Meron and they totally freaked her out, but none wanted to sit on Hani.
So, after watching her stand completely still in a huge cloud of butterflies for about 5 minutes, I staged a butterfly landing on her back. Yup, I know. But she would have been so sad! So I gently pulled on the back of her dress and said there was a big blue butterfly on her. Then I pretended to brush it off and pointed it out in the 50 or so butterflies around her. She was really excited. Not sure whether this makes me a good mom or a terrible mom... probably just a mom who didn't want her overly tired and anxious daughter to have a melt down of epic proportions in the butterfly house.      
All in all, we had a lovely time. Especially Hani. She is already making plans for her birthday next year.