Happy Third Birthday Harper!

  Our Harper turned three today.  She was very excited about her birthday this morning and happily yelled to us that she was three today.  The day was pretty low key. The girls did a lot of art work, and had a tea to put on.  We had cake and presents just with us since various family are either out of town or else wise indisposed unfortunately.  We'll celebrate late with them.  Daryl did take the girls to a movie tonight where they both had their favorite snack:  popcorn.

  Harper is a very bright girl and is quite the chatter box.  She knows a lot of shapes, colors, numbers, and letters.  Her favorite television shows are Max and Ruby, Octonauts, and Little Einsteins. Harper's favorite color is green; something I only learned recently actually.  She likes to read in the mornings with Mom while Avery is at preschool, and she loves car rides.  Usually Harper is an excellent shopping buddy.  Harper has a lot of personality and is a fun addition to our family.

Harper was pretty sick for a couple days before her birthday.  Avery had declared if that Harper was sick on her birthday then her party would be ruined.  I too was worried that she wouldn't be feeling well on her birthday, but she was back to her normal self.  Unfortunately she passed her illness onto Emery though.

Avery wanted to take the cake to the table.  You can see I just made a little cake.  It was actually from the Weight Watcher's cookbook and was made with beets.  It was a pretty good chocolate cake.

Harper with her cake.

Harper really, really wanted to open her presents.  She was shaking them trying to see what was in there.

I love this picture.  It looks like it's tough to be three sometimes.  Also you can see the nice card Aunt Joanne sent with three dollars!

Harper's big gift was a balance bike.  She was really excited when she first saw it, but she only rode it for a short amount of time.  

Harper using her new crayons and coloring book.

Here's Harper coloring again.  Notice that she has finished with her piece of cake, but then insisted that she needed a cupcake(I made the rest of the cake batter into cupcakes obviously).