brooklyn is three!

birthday girlie

is three now

her favorite color is pink and purple

her favorite princesses are ariel and bell

she is quite the teaser and loves to tease everyone especially her daddy. she calls him goober tounge and loves to try and tickle him.

she tried to blow up the balloon but it shot out of her mouth...she thought it was funny!

she wont let us cut her hair because she wants to be rapunzle

her cute bell "cake"

singing happy birthday

she is quite the hair dresser and loves to do barbies hair, dolls hair, and mommy hair...we think she will be a hair stylist someday

brody gave her a rapunzel purse which she loves

she loves to sing songs and oftentimes i find her singing songs to herself while she plays with toys. the songs are only songs she knows because she makes them up as she goes.

she still takes a nap (unlike brody at age 3) and she still needs it otherwise we have a grumpy girl for the rest of the night. brooklyn is a morning girl...her happiest time of day is right when she wakes up. and of course that is mommy's worst time of day. but i still love her even if she wakes me up at 6:30 AM.

she absolutely adores her brother and will do anything and everything for him. she is so good to him. he really is lucky to have her for his sister. she is also such a outgoing little girl. she gets so sad when we go to the gym and tells me "no one played with me today...i asked them to but they didnt" i have to tell her that sometimes other people are shy...she doesnt understand how that could possibly be.

arriving in arizona the night before brooklyn's birthday made me a little anxious. how was i going to pull off making it a fun day for her?! i brought all her presents with us but as far as a birthday party was planned...i actually had one planned in virginia with friends. well thank goodness for grandma. karen took over planning her a fun birthday breakfast with all the family before we would drive to meet daddy in new mexico. i was so grateful and touched that all of josh's family would come to celebrate last minute with us. it made my day and of course made brooklyn feel very special. all she wanted was a bell cake for her birthday so we just plopped bell on top of her strawberry and whip cream waffel and she was set. she loved it and of course loved all her presents. when we were flying to arizona i was talking to her on the plane about her birthday. i asked her if she was excited to get her presents? "no!" what do you want most on your birthday? "i just want my daddy!" she had missed josh so much. she cried daily and it was hard to console her. well she got what she wanted for her birthday...HER DADDY! after breakfast and getting all ready we started driving to new mexico. poor scott and josh had worked all night so they were driving on little to no sleep. we met josh a little over halfway and then i drove the rest of the way while josh slept. we were thrilled to see our daddy! brooklyn ended up having a wonderful day thanks to josh's loving family. they took such good care of all of our needs and more. thank you karen for making brooklyn's birthday special. happy birthday baby! we love you so much and are so grateful you are in our family!