Molly turned three on the 15th. Here is a recap of her birthday celebrations...
We invited both sets of grandparents to our house the Sunday before her birthday for dinner and cake and ice cream. The rest of our families had made the trip down the month before for the blessing so we didn't think they needed to come all the way down again. It turned out to be so fun! Molly loved having all her grandparents there and being the center of attention, which she definitely was. We started with a delicious dinner, mostly made by Justin, and then it was on to presents. The first gift she opened was this Princess pop-up book, which was an immediate hit!
In fact, after she opened it, she really didn't seem interested in any other presents. She started to open the next gift but the pull of the book was too strong and she went back to it. I even said that I was going to open all her presents without her and she said, "That's okay Mom, you can open my presents if you want."
She eventually got back to the business of gift-opening and was excited to get some other fun things.
After playing with her presents for a little while, it was time for cake and ice cream. Molly had been asking for a Princess cake (of course) and since I am most definitely NOT a cake decorator, my mother-in-law made this one for me. She did a great job with it and Molly loved it. We couldn't even get her to come to the table for dinner; she just stood on her chair and gazed at her cake.
Molly was a little nervous when I took the knife to the cake-she told me that she wanted it "whole." It was too pretty!
Her actual birthday fell on a Tuesday so I didn't have anything super fun planned. We had planned on going to the zoo the day before but Justin got sick so we ended up just staying home. We had a hard time deciding exactly what we were going to get Molly so we waited a bit too long to order her gift (it was only online). It hadn't made it to our house yet although we had a few little doo-dads for her to open when she woke up. (I think I felt worse than her-she didn't know and she had already gotten plenty of things.)
The majority of the day was spent at home, me trying to keep the kids away from Justin who had come down with a highly contagious virus. We did manage to make it to storytime at the library and we had cupcakes after a dinner of German Pancakes, per Molly's request. Justin and Molly had fun making a HUGE mess with their cupcakes, but I'll give Justin some credit-he cleaned up the table after Molly went to bed (it got much worse than this).
A couple days later, Molly got a package in the mail, some movies from Grandma.
And the next day, the gift we were waiting for finally came. Molly was excited to open it and find some princess dress-ups.
She played with them a little that night and the next morning she was up, bright and early, standing by my bed, completely naked, and asking to play with her dress-ups. Sometimes she has a hard time deciding which princess to be. The most obvious solution? Why not be all of them at the same time!
We invited both sets of grandparents to our house the Sunday before her birthday for dinner and cake and ice cream. The rest of our families had made the trip down the month before for the blessing so we didn't think they needed to come all the way down again. It turned out to be so fun! Molly loved having all her grandparents there and being the center of attention, which she definitely was. We started with a delicious dinner, mostly made by Justin, and then it was on to presents. The first gift she opened was this Princess pop-up book, which was an immediate hit!
In fact, after she opened it, she really didn't seem interested in any other presents. She started to open the next gift but the pull of the book was too strong and she went back to it. I even said that I was going to open all her presents without her and she said, "That's okay Mom, you can open my presents if you want."She eventually got back to the business of gift-opening and was excited to get some other fun things.
After playing with her presents for a little while, it was time for cake and ice cream. Molly had been asking for a Princess cake (of course) and since I am most definitely NOT a cake decorator, my mother-in-law made this one for me. She did a great job with it and Molly loved it. We couldn't even get her to come to the table for dinner; she just stood on her chair and gazed at her cake.
Molly was a little nervous when I took the knife to the cake-she told me that she wanted it "whole." It was too pretty!
Her actual birthday fell on a Tuesday so I didn't have anything super fun planned. We had planned on going to the zoo the day before but Justin got sick so we ended up just staying home. We had a hard time deciding exactly what we were going to get Molly so we waited a bit too long to order her gift (it was only online). It hadn't made it to our house yet although we had a few little doo-dads for her to open when she woke up. (I think I felt worse than her-she didn't know and she had already gotten plenty of things.)
The majority of the day was spent at home, me trying to keep the kids away from Justin who had come down with a highly contagious virus. We did manage to make it to storytime at the library and we had cupcakes after a dinner of German Pancakes, per Molly's request. Justin and Molly had fun making a HUGE mess with their cupcakes, but I'll give Justin some credit-he cleaned up the table after Molly went to bed (it got much worse than this).
A couple days later, Molly got a package in the mail, some movies from Grandma.
And the next day, the gift we were waiting for finally came. Molly was excited to open it and find some princess dress-ups.
She played with them a little that night and the next morning she was up, bright and early, standing by my bed, completely naked, and asking to play with her dress-ups. Sometimes she has a hard time deciding which princess to be. The most obvious solution? Why not be all of them at the same time!
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She is adorable. We just wish she could come over and play with our little princess!
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