Cakies Is Three!

My little Cake-a-roni is three today! And, although her party isn't until Friday, we celebrated from the moment she woke up. Bean and I sang to her as she walked into the family room...and her response..."No singing to me!" She isn't the most pleasant when she wakes up, it takes about a half hour until she is her sweet sassy self! We snuggled, and then when I asked her what she wanted to do today, because it was HER day..."Red Robin!" Ummmm, well, that will be dinner my dear! "Chuckin Cheese", was the next response, so we got the cheese out of the fridge and threw it around the house! HA! I do make myself giggle! Okay, so I talked her out of Chuck-E-Cheese. We then decided on the park...and then I opened the curtains...it was wet and rainy. We weren't off to that great of a start!

So, I suggested she pick out an outfit, and we do a quick birthday photo shoot...and she could even sit on the table. This sparked a happy spot, mainly because she could sit and lay on the table like a centerpiece!

After pictures, we played games, and then I thought of giving the girls pedicures and manicures. They LOVED it! It was the full work up...soak, wash, scrub, nail trim, lotion, massage and of course a fresh coat of paint. It was a complete highlight! We took a walk around the neighborhood with umbrellas even though the rain had stopped.

Dinner at Red Robin, and then on to Beanie's soccer game, and followed by an ice cream treat and a visit with great friends!

All in all, I think Cakies had a great day...I know I did! Hard to believe that three years have passed, and my baby girl, is no longer a baby, nor a toddler. She is a complete spark in all of our lives. She keeps us laughing, snuggling, playing, (sometimes pulling our hair out...but I won't speak of such things on this day!) and most of all...she has brought us more love to our family. I remember being first pregnant with her, and worrying that I wouldn't be able to love her the way I loved Bean...I should never have worried. We fell in love with her from the first moment we saw her, and the love we have for her is infinite.

Sweet Cakies, I love you...someday, you will understand the love I have in my heart for you when you have a sweet little one of your own to love. "I love you all the way up to Jesus...and back."

Here are a few pictures for your enjoyment!

Bean couldn't stand the thought of missing out on the table laying!

Story time: Tom and I could be charged for defacing money. Such a crime. Fortunately, it wasn't us! Yesterday afternoon we were getting ready to go to Mimi's house (my mom). Tom and I were upstairs, and Cakes comes up with money in her hand asking if she could take it with her. Tom told her, "Sure, but put it in your pocket so you don't lose it." (I am making a long story short, because really she came upstairs whining and wailing away because she could only find one of her moneys from Grannie Wells, and she wanted the others and carried on for about 5 minutes with this nonsense...and then after going on a search, she found the others...okay back to story.) So she left. She then returns with a whiny little voice, "My can't get the moneys in my pocket. I made them small. I wipped them all up, but I can't do it!" My reaction, "You ripped the money?" I think my face scared her more than anything, and she quickly realized that she shouldn't have ripped it up, and she was feeling quite sad. Lots of snuggles and explanations later, she was a-ok. Thankfully it wasn't the $20 bill she had brought up originally, and thankfully I put that up high so she didn't try to put it in her pocket.

This is what I found on the bottom of our steps:

I personally think that each piece should be worth about 10 cents, since she ripped it into ten pieces...the other dollar is ripped into 5 or so...so those are worth even more!

And, yes, I know this has nothing to do with Cakes, but my Little Man was so darn cute in all of his nakedness yesterday that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to capture the cute little, chubby, dimpled buns of my four and a half month old! Tom cringed at the thought of me posting this...I will delete someday when LM is older...like in Junior High when the kids somehow go through a particularly mean stage!

He seriously loves being naked...and just airing himself out! :)

Off to bed I shall head!