Hannah's Golden Birthday!

Hannah's 3rd Birthday was on June 3rd. We held off celebrating though until today, June 14th, so both sets of Grandparents could join us for the party. Red Grandma & Grandpa (Joel's parents) flew in yesterday for a two-week visit, so we didn't want to pass up the chance to party with them! ;)

I took a cake decorating class back in April and it was fun to test out my newly learned skills for Hannah's birthday cake. I'll have to do a different post about that...I enjoyed learning something new and it's a joy to be able to bake fun cakes for the kids.

Hannah decided on a Sophia the First themed party. She's the newest Disney Jr. Princess, her Mom married the King and she became a Princess overnight! She's a very sweet character! Hannah likes watching her show and enjoyed meeting her in Disneyland back in January. For her birthday, we bought her a Sophia the First dress, which she loves wearing! It's fun to take a little Princess, dressed in purple to the grocery store or the bank! Hannah is ALL-GIRL and we LOVE it! Her favorite color right now is "puuple" and whenever we play "Eye Spy" there is never a time she doesn't spy something "puuple". It's sweet.

 

 

Love this sweet girl...she enjoyed having everyone sing Happy  Birthday to her.

 

 Her best friend, Claire Arnold, came to her party. I have no idea what they're talking about here, but they sure looked cute!

 Making tiaras.

 

 Besides family coming to the party, Hannah also wanted to invite both of our next-door neighbors. Trent disappeared at one point and I found he and Hannah reading books together in the living room. So sweet.

Abby loves her time with Red Grandma!

Love you sweet, dear, little Hannah. I hope you don't grow up too fast...I would love to just keep you this little forever. You're so fun! You are so social and enjoy people. Almost once a day, I realize it's quiet and wonder, "where's Hannah?!" I have found you in the bathroom eating the entire (small) jar of jelly beans that are meant for potty-training, or you're trying to paint your toe nails on your own (spilling it on our bedroom carpet), or hiding in your window seat with a baby and playing "Mommy". Other times, you're no where to be found...and then I receive a text from Sandy, next door, that reads, "I have Hannah." or I look out the front windows and while you were playing in your window seat, you spied Kay and her dog, Buster (across the street) out doing yard work and have run over for a visit or run to the other next door to just say "Hi" to Jana...as she's getting ready for work or trying to get her boys out the door to baseball games or practice. You are just a social-bug. I have considered putting higher locks on our doors to keep you indoors and need to tell our neighbors to please send you home unless they've heard from me, asking "can Hannah come over and play?"

You are pretty fearless, loving and kind. Your favorite movie is Frozen and you ask to watch "Frozen" videos of YouTube whenever you see me sitting at the computer even though we own the movie. A couple weeks ago at the church retreat, all the young girls sang "Let It Go" on stage, you were front and center and sang it from your heart like it was written for you. You were a joy to watch.

You enjoy playing, "Mommy & Daddy" with Caleb. Watching the two of you play together is so fun for me. You have occasional fights, but mostly play really well together. He is a really good imaginative player and he's teaching you that talent.

You have a tricycle that you enjoy riding and can ride it the whole "long walk" that we do that is 1 mile long! I was so impressed the first time you did it! It's very fun to go on walks with you and Caleb. You love to pick flowers and watch animals, take purses and sunglasses with you where ever you go.

We're still working on potty-training. You're a champ about using the toilet for number 1 but still prefer a pull-up or your panties for number 2. Bummer. ;) We'll get there. There have been times where I put you on your potty-chair or the toilet with a basket of books or a movie and encourage you to sit there as long as you have to until you poop. An hour and a half later, it finally happened...but then that was it. We'll get it figured out...hopefully before summer is out. It will be nice to be a diaper-free home. ;)

We adore you Hannah Grace...love that you're in our family. You're a blessed little girl!