Drea's 3rd birthday

Drea turned 3 years old on January 7th. We had so much fun on this birthday because she really seeemed to understand (I guess as much as a 3 yr old can) and she was so excited about everything that involved her birthday. The morning of her birthday she woke up shouting "I'm three! I'm three! I'm three!" We kind of had no idea she would react like that and be so excited. She climbed up in our bed and said "I want to tell Bailey I'm three...Hey Bailey, I'm three! I want to tell Jersey I'm three...Hey Jers, I'm three!" (Those are our dogs.) Anyway, I think you can tell how excited she was. She wanted to wear a dress to daycare for her birthday and we took cupcakes and ice cream for her whole class.

We told her to we could go to dinner for her birthday and she could choose the place. She said she wanted to go where the big fishes are. It took me a couple minutes to figure it out - she was talking about Cheddar's in Morgantown which has a huge fish tank with lots of cool fish in it. This picture is at Cheddar's with her birthday ice cream sundae the waittress brought her. (By the way, if anyone cares...they don't sing happy birthday to people at Cheddar's. Dissappointing to us.)

I forgot the highlight of Drea's day: Her friend Caleb, from church, called and sang "Happy Birthday" to her. It was very funny (to me, not to Daddy) because the whole time he sang to her she tilted her head to the side and made these googly eyes like she had fallen in love. We have never seen her make that face before! Like I said I thought it was cute. Daddy thought it was kind of cute until she asked to call him the next day! He, he, he!

This sounds funny but the other thing Drea was thrilled about was going to the doctor for her three year appointment. And I'm serious, she couldn't wait. And everything about the appointment she thought was awesome. (I didn't know at the three year checkup they get to do all kinds of new things.) She got to have a hearing test, an eye examine, have her blood pressure taken, jump on one foot and perform other tricks, pee in a cup and her favorite thing...wear a paper gown. As soon as they put it on her she asked us to take her picture and then she danced around in the mirror singing about how she looked like a princess. It was hilarious!

Her birthday party was the Sunday after her birthday at the Flip Factory in Fairmont, which is my friend's gymnastics and tumbling center. Drea loved it, of course. I think the adults had more fun than the children. This can be seen in the above picture with my sister-in-law Jody being pushed in this contraption around and around. Really the best part is that the kids were able to just run around and play in all this open space. It's like a little kid's dream - a huge bouncy floor and lots of room to run.

This is Drea and her friend, Madison. Madison's mommy and I went to high school together and we had these two little princesses within days of each other. Drea was born on the 7th and Madison on the 10th. The funniest part was they both had their parties at the Flip Factory and they both choose Ariel from the Little Mermaid for their parties. Anyway, they had a great weekend enjoying both of their parties and lots of cupcakes! Our little girls seem pretty big lately!