Wednesday Bailey turned four. We STILL haven't planned her friend party so we made it a fun day with family! Most of it I was able to capture, although of course, just remember the photographer hat DOES NOT FIT ON MY HEAD when my HUGE mommy hat is shoved on there. Just remember. Because these photos SUCK and this is my job! HA!
Hello big girl. This was taken on Tuesday. Her last day of being three.
We started her birthday off with a trip to the grocery store at 7am so she could pick out her favorite breakfast food. Then at 8am my parents came over for her birthday breakfast...
Donuts. I love that there is a bite out of it b/c she just couldn't wait!
Halfway through the birthday song she started singing! It was so cute. Later she said to me, "if you sing happy birthday to me again it will make me so happy!"
We sang it ALL day! HA!
Parker was so good about "helping" Bailey with her gifts... she wanted to help but didn't get upset when we told her she had to let Bailey open some too!
I love this photo of my dad!
And the little man. He was so excited all morning! So cute!
Most of her gifts from us were art supplies or projects. I think I might just be DONE buying toys. Still working hard to simplify our life and the STUFF is out of control. So art supplies seemed like a great gift idea, especially b/c I knew my mom was getting her two great Discovery Toys games.
They LOVED these paint stamper things!
After G napped we headed to tot time at the pool. It was the first time AND LAST TIME THIS YEAR I took the camera. Totally stressed me out to leave it in the bag and totally stressed me out to have it in the water. Reiterated the fact that we need a little point and shoot to capture the family sometimes.
Parker, looking like she's walking on water, has become fearless this summer. It's awesome. She will jump and go under water and float on her back and go down the slide and everything. We are so proud of her b/c she was so timid a few weeks ago when we started going!
And the bubba. Who took 5 steps in a row yesterday!
After the pool we went to Bailey's favorite restaurant for lunch, Llywelyn's Pub in Webster. Naps following then Chris had soccer camp so I had his parents and brother over for her birthday dinner (Imo's). And they were so sweet that we loaded car seats into their cars and went to get ice cream.
It was a FUN day.
Anticlimactic since her and Grayson ended up with fevers that night and barely slept. Yesterday I was running on 2 hours of sleep and didn't do very well to say the least. It was a long day. Kim and I had a GREAT newborn shoot for Fresh Art in the morning (go check out the FA blog to see his sneak peek! SUPER cute!), I had lunch with family and then since C had camp I was on mommy-duty all afternoon/night. Two sick/crabby kids and a long HOT day with no car (even sick I would have gone and walked through Target just to GET OUT) made me HOT AND CRABBY too.
But today is a NEW day and after B's 4 year old check up and after C and I go pick up a car my AWESOME friends/clients are letting us borrow for a couple of weeks we have sitters coming so we can go MINI VAN shopping. Oh man. Chris wants to just buy something today but COME ON. It has to be harder than that doesn't it? We're just getting pretty tired of sharing a car!
Wanted to mention, briefly, that my fall is starting to book up... earlier than I expected (THANK YOU!) so please think ahead for Christmas this year and get on my calendar!
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And thanks for humoring me with the Bailey birthday blog post. Since scrapbooking is FAR from happening at this point in my life I need to document the details here!
Enjoy TODAY!
