birthday girl

"Ah-mee" turned 3 last week! We had planned a big party for last Saturday and then 4 out of 5 of us got sick... I made cupcakes anyway, and she opened her presents and cards, and had plenty of offers of help along the way. She wore her pretty blue dress, and L. got dressed up, too (so she could be "pretty for A.").

I even offered to make a special birthday breakfast, "like chocolate chip pancakes or something?"

"I want oatmeal!"

It's so easy to please a 3 year-old sometimes...

Later, we managed to find a day when everyone could make it to the party, and so we made even MORE cupcakes. A. ordered an entirely pink party, so we had pink balloons, candies, pink lemonade, pink candles and streamers and so on...

And again, there were plenty of volunteers when it came to unwrapping gifts. We played games, had prizes, pizza, and L. made up this poster so we could do pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. And the pictures of tails very thoughtfully included a picture of a pin.