Celebrating

We have spent the past week celebrating our sweet Ellie. In true Ellie fashion she has thoroughly enjoyed every minute of her birthday week!


On Sunday we went to church in the morning and Ellie got a birthday sticker in Sunday School and they sang to her. She was so thrilled with her sticker and wore it all day. I even found her sitting in her rocking chair that afternoon holding her sticker and singing happy birthday to herself...so cute!We had a family celebration after naptime enjoyed having the grandparents over. We grilled and also enjoyed some delicious homemade ice cream courtesy of my dad. Ellie was super excited about the ice cream! Ellie had so much fun opening her presents and loved them all!

The third birthday present...a musical jewelry box from Mommy and Daddy!

Emmie picked out this little Cinderella doll for Ellie and it was a hit. They have them up by the registers at Target and the girls obsess over them every time we're there...Ellie was so happy to finally get one!

Ellie was very excited to get a helmet from Uncle Ben...even before she found out that the reason she was getting a helmet was because Gran and Grandaddy got her a scooter (which she refers to as her "skateboard").

She got some books and bows from GG and Papa. The Frozen book was a hit...I only hope that when GG and Papa are here babysitting they have to read it as often as I do...lol!

The men decided to model the bows...

Monday was Ellie's actual birthday and we had a fun, relaxing day and then went and got some ice cream (actually frozen yogurt but the girls call it ice cream) after dinner. It has been quite awhile since we went to the yogurt place so Ellie was thrilled.






Tuesday Ellie had her three year old check up and Ruthie had her 6 month visit. Ellie was 28.5lb (27th percentile) and 35 3/4in (21st percentile). Ruthie was 14 lb 1oz (9th percentile) and 25.5in (20th percentile). Both girls got a clean bill of health and Ruthie got her shots. Ellie was quite pleased that she didn't have to have shots and Emmie told everyone that came into the room that it wasn't HER turn to get shots...it's good to establish these things up front.






Thursday Ellie and Emmie got to go to My Gym camp in the morning which they were so excited about. They had a great time and Ruthie and I got a ton of errands run while it was just the two of us!






Saturday we had Ellie's birthday party. Ellie has been looking forward to her party since Emmie's birthday party in December. Ellie has lots of friends that we have play dates with but most of them are Emmie's age and Ellie always gets excited when we play with someone "her size" so when I was deciding what to do for her birthday I decided on an all girls princess party with "ellie-sized" friends! We ended up with a total of 8 little girls plus one of the little girls brought her 7ish year old sister (which thrilled Emmie...she has talked about Kaysun nonstop since the party).  Everyone came dressed in their royal attire and I surprised Emmie and Ellie the day of the party with Elsa and Anna costumes...they were thrilled and wore them all day!



My pretty princesses!



We painted fingers and toes,

Mary Ruth's first manicure!

played "pin the kiss on the frog",

Paul was tasked with drawing the frog and making the lips...didn't he do a great job?

read Cinderella and hunted for the lost slipper, played outside,

and then enjoyed some yummy chick-fil-a nuggets and princess cupcakes!

nuggets, fruit, chocolate pretzels, and pink lemonade

chocolate cupcakes with strawberry icing with crowns made of marshmallow fondant

Ellie loved her princess balloon!

Kaysun and her adoring fan, Emmie.

I LOVED how the party favors turned out...little pink bags with sparkly letters and a sparkly silver bow! Each bag had stickers, a wand, bracelets, and chapstick. We also had everyone sign Ellie's "birthday book"...one of my favorite birthday traditions!

We had so much fun celebrating sweet Ellie Belly this week and we can't wait to see what 3 has in store for her!