1,2...3!!!

She's 3!

Sitting in front of her packages. This kid will grow up thinking birthday presents come in the mail. We love you families. Thank you, thank you.
We went for a haircut.
She was a princess all weekend...and really all year, right?
She loved her cake.
A princess get together.
I made her that little shirt with my new screen printing technique. Gotta say, I love it.
Daddy bought her a princess towel. I have to say, I have embraced the princesses. This last month I have found myself really wanting a lot of princess garb. It makes her so happy.
Opening many many presents. Thank you, thank you.
We went and saw dad at work, wore a princess crown and earrings around town, napped, went to the park, went to Steak and Shake (her request. we had the same waiter we always have and he actually commented that he remembers us...nice. That's too many visits to Steak and Shake I think) We had "crusted rice" for dinner and lots and lots of cake and KitKat bars.

I love her leg hugs. You know the ones. Those tight ones where they hold on and make you feel like you are the single most important person in their little life because you are and you just want it to stay that way forever. I love those leg hugs. We love you Miss Blue.

Starksy is getting older.

We still love our little dog. He's just getting older and with that grumpier and lazier. Chloe loves playing with him. He can still keep up running with me and Brad. He stinks more. But...same old cuddly, center of attention, Starsky.

Chloe has been really into carrying these animals all over the house. Downstairs with her in the morning, back upstairs for nap, back down after nap, back up for bedtime. Once she told me to carry her animals because she couldn't. She said, "I only have 2 hands, mom, you do it."

After church last week, she came home and threw herself on the ground in a defeated way and said, with her head in her hands, "this drives me crazy".

She'll ask Brad and me, "what are you guys laughing at?"

When Ezra isn't awake in the morning she goes up about every 5 minutes to "check on him". She told the doctor the other day that we only call Ezra "handsome boy".

She's a character...soon to be three next week. More on that later.

We went to Chicago last weekend and met some friends. We stopped at REI and a couple days later found that we came home with an item we didn't buy. Just so you know, you can call REI and they will gladly take your credit card number of the phone and make a purchase. So now we own a new beanie hat. Christmas for someone next year, I guess!

What else...well, I am loving Spring.