Amelia's Third Birthday!

2/5 - Amelia was so excited for her birthday this year. She'd been asking for weeks if it was her birthday yet. She had to learn how to show three fingers so she could tell everyone that she's three now!

2/5 - Amelie requested donuts and other yummy things for breakfast. Aaron was happy to oblige because he loves those things and picked these up on his way home from work. She had to wear her Dora hat most of the day. We were shopping in Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago and she saw them on the shelf and had to have them since Dora is her favorite ever. They've been sitting in the China cabinet waiting for her birthday to come and everyday she'd ask, "Is it my birthday yet?" When we said no she'd say, "It's getting closer!"

2/5 - Amelia was so excited to open presents!  Alex liked to help her along too.

2/5 - Nana heard of her love for Dora and she made some Dora blankets for Amelia to wrap her babies in. Nana and Papa mailed them along in the cutest envelope!  Amelia gasped when she saw them in quickly ran to get her favorite chicken baby to wrap her up. Chicken baby is a whole 'nother story. My sister Jennifer got it for her a few years ago for Christmas. It's a baby dressed in a chicken suit. At first Amelia would only raise her eyebrow at it and wouldn't touch it but somewhere along the way it became her favorite and now she drags it around with her all the time.

2/5 - Sadly our other stroller broke a few weeks ago so we used Amelia's birthday as an excuse to replace one of her favorite toys. This one is SO CUTE! It has little flowers on the wheels, cushy handles, and cute polk-a-dot fabric. I love her expression as she opened it.

2/5 - The stroller is also one of Alex's favorite toys. I love his two pointer fingers requesting a turn as Amelia smiles sweetly for her picture.

2/5 - Grandma and Grandpa sent an adorable lion toy and four dollars. Amelia was so excited about both and loved that the lion was more cute than scary.

2/5 - Amelia would painstakingly remove every scrap of wrapping paper before she'd even look at the toy. This one was funny because it was a huge box holding a fancy Princess tent and the picture on the front was huge and she didn't even notice what it was until she got off all the paper.

2/5 - Here Amelia finally looked at what was on the box and she was so excited to have a fancy castle tent of her very own.

2/5 - The tent was SO easy to put up. It's like one of those collapsible laundry hampers upside down. It just popped up with a little encouragement from Aaron. Here's Amelia with all of her presents. The tent came with some dress-up shoes, a shirt, and a crown. She also got a dentist Barbie with a little girl sitting in a dentist chair, a stuffed lion with $4, a new stroller, and two new blankets for her dollies.

2/5 - Aaron hooked up our pop-up tunnel to the tent and Amelia and the other kids thought this was the best idea ever! She was so excited to give it the first go.

2/5 - Amelia adored her new dress-up shoes but they were really hard to walk in. She was sure she was going down several times. When she walked she'd keep her arms out to the side for balance and it was so adorable!

2/5 - Amelia excitedly picked pink cake for her birthday, it was strawberry. When she heard it was time to make the cake she had to help. She's quite the chef princess.

2/5 - As a bonus she gets to help lick the spatula when she makes things with me.

2/5 - She had to try out the little toothbrush that came with her dentist Barbie.

2/5 - The girls all got to play Barbies together. I was the Mom, Amelia was the little girl going to the dentist, and Miya was the dentist. It was fun to pretend together.

2/5 - Spencer jumped in and was Amelia Dad with a Ken doll. This brought back so many memories of when I was a little girl and I convinced my family to come play barbies with me.

2/5 - For dinner Amelia wanted a pepperoni pizza picnic while watching Dora. We love having picnics inside!

2/5 - I love Amelia's freakout face as she watched Aaron light the candles. She said, "Don't fire me!" We assured her that she was safe and she relaxed enjoying the pretty candles and her number three cake.

2/5 - Amelia had a hard time blowing out the candles. It's funny because she's typically really great about it and blows out our big candles all the time. With a little help she got them all blown out.

2/5 - I love the way she eats cake. She just skims the frosting off the top and then eats the cake part frosting-free.

2/5 - Miya noticed Amelia was having a hard time in her new fancy shoes so she held her hand as Amelia tried walking around the room. It was so sweet with Miya saying encouraging things the whole time.