Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Eve… Happy Birthday to you!!

Here are her small presents from us. I like to leave them little surprises for their birthdays.

She said,"Ohh... what is this?"

The kids had pretend cake while I made breakfast. I also got her an apron, but she said, "I don't need an apron mom, it's just pretend food!"

Today we celebrated Eve’s 3rd birthday. My baby is growing up! I made her another birthday cake (red velvet with raspberry butter cream frosting and chocolate bunnies). I made a small cake for the family and 12 cupcakes to take to a playdate this morning. We ate cupcakes at 9am with friends. It was fun. Yesterday Lex was very upset that I wouldn’t let him stay home from school. He had it in his head that we were having another party for Eve and almost cried when he realized that our family and friends were not coming back today. It was sad. He decided to go to school and told EVERYONE that it was her birthday. She wore her birthday crown to school too, so it was pretty obvious. His teacher said he’s been talking about it all week :) After lunch and naps (good naps from both of them!) we went to the aquatic center for Lex’s lessons. Eve and I swam and we all had fun. They were both really tired though! We ended up leaving after an hour because Eve was crying (some kids bumped into her on the slide) and she said she wanted to go home now. Then Alan and I subjected ourselves to some parental torture and took two exhausted kids out to a crowded restaurant for dinner. Eve’s choice, but in hindsight we all would have had more fun (and at least three of us would have eaten better) if we had just gone home. Oh well. Once home it was past bedtime but I had pink and red cake in the fridge, so we sang Happy Birthday and had cake. It was a long day! :) Luckily they went to bed with minimum fuss and I hope to be in bed soon too!

Yumm.... red cake :)

A big three year old bite of red cake!

Red velvet cake (a very unnatural color!), with pink raspberry butter cream frosting and Annie's chocolate bunny decorations.

Happy Birthday Eve! We love you!

We celebrated Eve’s birthday this weekend.  A good time was had by all.  As usual we had a crowded house and sugared up kids.  She wanted a chocolate party, which is hard to do for a three year old!  I think it went well though.  My nauseous stomach even cooperated that day, though it was back in force the next day. The party continued into Sunday and by last night we were all exhausted!  Today the kids both eagerly took naps and I napped the entire time with them.  Whewh!  One more recovery day and then a mini party for her actual birthday on Wednesday.  Just one more day until she is a big three year old!

I’ll let the photos tell the party story…

My lovely fruit platter to balance out the chocolate fest.

The birthday girl in a new party dress from Grammy Lynn.

The cake this year was in flux right up to the end. Eve and I had a cupcake thing all planned out, then about a week before the party, she started insisting on cake instead. Turns out she wanted the EXACT same cake as our friend Dylan had at his party. We settled on a different style of cake, but the day before the party I realized I didn't have the right pans. Ugh. Back to cupcakes. I had this vision in mind so I made cupcakes and cookies the day before and during naptime on party day my dad helped me set them all up. Then Rachel came in and suggested putting jelly beans on top. Genius! A complete team effort that turned out really cute, and delicious! Thanks all!!

Eve and her balloon, which she calls Tommy. She REALLY wanted this balloon and was asking about it for weeks. It was a big hit at the party.

I took a ton of pictures of these pretty girls sitting together. Caitlin, Eve, and Molly.

One more of the three of them.

Kitty. Eve loves, LOVES, soft cuddly things.

I like this picture because it looks like she's saying "ooohhh" :)

Molly was trying to be helpful and put ALL of Eve's new hair bands on her head at once. Eve was not impressed.

Look at how excited Dylan and Eve look! They are so cute!

Chocolate covered Caitlin

Who is this crazy doctor!?

Doctor Eve gives Molly a flu shot. Eve likes to make sure EVERYONE (people, animals, toys, etc.) gets flu shots daily.

Totally coincidentally, the leftover cupcakes left a message.

At breakfast the next morning Eve works VERY hard to cut her pancakes.

A very tired girl reading stories with Mema

Eve had her first swimming lesson today and boy was she excited!  This is her first lesson with the “big kids” instead of the Mommy and Me group.  She has three other kids in her class, two boys and a girl.  I was worried about her jumping off the ledge when the teacher isn’t looking, but she only did it twice and all the other kids did too.  She is the smallest and youngest in her group.  The age cut-off is 3yrs and she’s a month shy, but the teachers knew her well from the Mommy and Me lessons and they both agreed that she is ready for the preschool group.  The preschool group!!  Such a big girl.

Look at the eager little face

Jumping off the ledge to the teacher

Monkey crawl around the pool. She is such a strong girl!