3 going on 16

So we survived.  Yes it was birthday weekend this past weekend.  Miss Emily turned 3.  My goodness.

And in all honesty she is everything I would want her to be.  Cute, and cute enough to have her dad worried about the little boys that soon shall be knocking at our door.  Sassy like her mom, enough to drive her daddy nuts but make him laugh at the same time.  Lovable even through her sass, so that her dad and any other lucky person who meets her, knows that they are in fact lucky to meet her.  Smart as a whip,  I will take credit for that as well... but I think it might be a shared quality of both Bryan and I.  And she has a great sense of style.

I love her, I do.

So for her birthday we continued the tradition of streamers and balloons outside of the birthday girl's door (something that my mom did for my sister and I till we finally moved out of the house- and if we are lucky, and she is visiting during a birthday we still get decorations to this day).

I may have gotten a little crazy with the balloons, but I felt like this was going to be the first real birthday she was going to remember, and I had to make a good memory for her.

So I told her, that she had to sleep in her big girl bed all night or the birthday girl surprises weren't going to come.  So at 7 am I hear a knock at her door. And then ....

"MOM...Open Door!  It's WAKE UP TIME!"

And then out she came to a sea of pink, bright pink, white and purple.  She loved it.  Ran up and down the hall exclaiming that it was "Gorgeous!"

I was super proud.  And in that moment Bryan didn't totally hate me for making him blow up at least 75 balloons... How could you when you daughter feels that special because of what you did.

So then after a few episodes of Wonder Pets (sigh I just don't understand why they make the duck talk with a lisp- but anywho)  it was bath time and my smart as a whip daughter figured out how to dye her bath water pink.  Turns out if you add pink streamers you water will magically turn pink.  That was a fun surprise.

And then we were off to the family birthday dinner at the local Mexican restaurant (because she is a Vargas ya know!) ... and after mom and dad had a margarita and Emily got her share of attention .... it was time for the sombrero...

And a little whip cream on the nose!  We were so afraid that she wouldn't find it amusing (it didn't go over so well last year) but she absolutely loved it.  I am pretty sure she just loved the attention to be honest.

 So yes, the birthday was a success, she got her first Barbie from her Uncle Ryan and Aunt Andrea (I am pretty sure mostly from Andrea since I don't see Ryan running up and down the Barbie isle picking out a cute but not overly sexy Barbie with clothing and accessories to match... sorry Ryan I just don't think that is in your skill set).  She also got a princess doll house/castle and a Dora the Explorer tent that is now taking up most of the living room...

And on top of that she is getting a Children's Museum pass!  We are going to have some fun there...

However, I may have made a mistake.... Emily is really into stickers and such right now so I bought her boxes and boxes of the foam stickers plus a few sticky rhinestones... and this is what I got:

  Why yes that is a be-dazzled piano.... Bryan is not pleased.... However, it was on his watch that the piano was be-dazzled....so I am not taking full blame on this one.

Now onto the Holidays!!!