B-day Girl

We had big plans for our birthday girl. It isn't every day that you turn 3, so we were going to celebrate the whole day.

We were going to take cookies and and juice to school for snack time. We were going to go out to dinner at Eddie's and then come home and open presents.

But we didn't do any of that because of her being sick. So, we decided that we would have an Anna party day. We made her favorite foods for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We had her open her various presents from Celie & Jake, & Aunt Sue & Uncle Tom, and from us, throughout the day.

She is a very thoughtful present opener - very precise. She takes her time opening a gift, inspects it and then if it is warranted, she will ask to have it opened so she can play with it right away. She will then leave all her other presents until she is ready to open the next one. So, our process of letting her open her gifts throughout the day was perfect.

She opened 2 presents from Aunt Sue & Uncle Tom. A set of 4 different princess slippers in a keepsake box (these are "pretent" heels, plastic, with the various princesses on them and colored appropriately for the princess). She first had to try on the Cinderella slippers. She wore those for quite some time. Then she realized, she could try on the others as well. So, she would put the Cinderella slippers back on their shelf and then take out the Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) slippers, do a lap around the house, and then try Snow White - do a lap and then try Ariel. She continued this until opening her next present. A Fancy Nancy tutu and leotard. Immediately she started taking off her dress and wanted to put on her new outfit. She refused to take it off at bedtime. I am not sure if we will ever get it off of her. :)

After dinner, we had cake and she blew out her 3 candles. She opened her cards and presents from us and Celie & Jake. She just couldn't stand it, she had to have just about everything she opened either on or holding it.

I think despite coming off a terrible cold, she had a great birthday. We plan on rescheduling all of the events we had planned for when we all are in tip top shape.