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We're 3

8:42 pm CST January 22, 2012
Yep, I can't believe it either. As everyone that was a parent before me has said, time flies once you have kids. Yes, I have found that to be the truth. However, most of the time I cannot remember what life was like before the girls. Each year, I start the party planning early. Since the girls' birthday comes 3 weeks after Christmas, I feel that the party planning should start before I get overwhelmed with the holidays. Regardless of how early the party planning starts, I am always a bit surprised when the birthday arrives. It just does not seem like they should be getting older. Really, I watch them get older everyday so the actual milestone should not come as a surprise but the day is the official reminder that I cannot bottle today or this phase or these phrases. Speaking of phrases, some of my current favorites are "you da best mommy ever cause I love you" from Mary Robert. Both girls refer to Dora the Explorer as "Dut da Dut da Dora" since that is how the theme song goes. Back to the birthday! Festivities began on Thursday before thier birthday with cupcakes at school. This was super fun, because I got to go too! The girls were glad to have me at thier school and Hayes was incredibly brave (as she and I discussed she would be) when it was time for mommy to leave, she did not get upset. On thier birthday, they got to go to Cracker Barrel with Biggie and Nana for breakfast. In the afternoon, it was time for the Pinkalicious party. If you don't have a 3-7 year old gilr in your life, Pinkalicious is a book about a little girl that turns pink from eating too many pink cupcakes. Once she is pink, she has all sorts of adventures but eventually decides she should not be pink and has to eat all sorts of green things to make the pink go away. So the girls party, in addition to a big pink cupcake, little pink cupcakes (that the girls and frineds decorated), we had pink marshmellows, friut dip, M&M's, a cake pops we had green stuff too, in case you got to feeling a little too pink. Here are the pictures.

The Big Cupcake

Party Peeps

Decorating cupcakes

Mary Robert

3 year olds decorating

Cuties

Opening Presents

All the party people

POSTED BY marybeth

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