Wow! My baby baby is 3! She was so excited for her Birthday. She has been saying for months now, "My birthday is July 2nd." For the past month I have asked her what she wanted for her birthday, her reply was "a candy cane." Wow! What an exciting present! It is hard to find candy canes in July, so her wish didn't come true. But you know what? She didn't even notice. She works really really hard to only get 3 fingers up at a time to show you how old she is. She sang the happy birthday song to herself a lot and we sang to her too. Grandma and Grandpa Pugsley called and tried to sing to her, but she busted out into song and she took over. It was cute. They also sent her 3 dollar bills and she promptly tried to give them to Kennedi and Carter (since they are the ones usually carrying around money), but I made her keep it. So a few minutes later someone left out some scissors and she decided to cut up one of the dollars. So now she is down to 2 dollars. :) I told my parents they should have sent quarters. :)
We enjoyed dinner at loud, fun Red Robin with Kat, Todd and their girls. The kids were so excited to have the workers at Red Robin sing to her and give her ice cream. She was sweet and shared the whole thing with Paige and Logan. We went home after dinner for the rainbow cake and presents. This age is fun. It made me excited for Christmas with a 3 year old.
Looking back from when Ellie was born, it is totally amazing that we even have the joys of this loud, noisy, busy, funny little 3 year old. Her first 9 months were a scary time with hospital stays, chemo, JXG, CMV, broviac lines, NICU's, PICU's, pneumonia, bone marrow biopsies, liver biopsy, transfusions, x-rays, MRI's, CT scans, doctors and nurses. We came so close to losing her. And I am ever grateful that we didn't. She brings a big light to this family. She has been our biggest handful, but we will keep her. :) She is so healthy now and has a huge spirit that explodes out of her round little body every day. Love you Ellie girl!
Ellie singing her birthday song
5 comments:
What a cutie! She is looking too old these days, it seems like just yesterday she was doing the cute thing when you asked her how old she was she would say one... wait for it... almost two, can't believe she is 3 already!
She's so cute! What a fun birthday!
She has gotten big, where has all the baby fat gone? I love her cake, where did you get that idea? It's adorable, and I love the singing too.
Shanna, I got kind of teary thinking about that first year! What a miracle kid! Just proves.....be careful what you pray for! You might get it! She is adorable!
Julie
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