Happy 3rd Birthday Jade!

I find it amazing that my first baby has turned 3 already! Time is just flying by, but we are loving each new phase...well most new phases. We could of course deal without the temper tantrums and the talking back, but I just think each year gets to be more and more fun.

This year we celebrated Jade's 3rd birthday the weekend before her actual birthday with just our families. Mike and Jean were down the night before the party to baby sit the girls so we could go to Nate's Christmas party. My parents came down Saturday and brought my Grandma. We of course had to have a Frozen party! We ordered a cake from the local bakery and found some fun decorations at Walmart. I have to admit, I took the easy route on the food and didn't do all the cute stuff I found on Pinterest. We served taco in a bag, chips and salsa, snowflake sugar cookies, Sven poop (puppy chow), Elsa's frozen hearts (chocolate covered pretzels), and birthday cake!

Throughout the day, Jade was telling me that this was the best day ever and the best birthday ever! Made me feel pretty good and I'm glad she was so excited to celebrate. All she kept asking for for her birthday was balloons, so anything else was a bonus. Nate came home with about 13 different balloons! and her cake. I think that made her day right there.

Jade is not very fond of getting sung to so she had to hide her face during the birthday song and for some reason has no idea how to blow out candles. I guess I didn't know that was something that is hard to do. Yes, we know she's not 33, but Nate didn't know I already had bought a number 3 candle and bought another one when he picked up the cake so we used both of them.

Next was time for presents! That was super fun for her. She got a bunch of dress of clothes, an Anna doll to go with her Elsa doll, a doll house, magnet blocks, a movie, a puzzle...

Anna Doll

Anna Dress

 

Elsa Dress

Doll house

Balloon avalanche on her actual birthday!

Jade loves Princess's, Fairies, anything that goes along with the movie Frozen, running around the kitchen island, playing hide and seek, and playing dress up. She does a great job talking and enunciating. She is able to name common colors, can count to about 13 before needing help, can sing the alphabet, spell her first name, tell you her whole name and what month her birthday is in.  She struggles leaving me in unfamiliar places and sometimes familiar places. She has always been a Mama's girl and continues to be one.

I saw this next part online and I am going to start it this year and try to remember to ask her these questions every year...
Jade's 3 year old Favorites:
Color: Red (although the color changes almost every time you ask her from red to pink to blue to green)
Activity: Play
Food: Macaroni and Cheese
Animal: Dog (this also changes as she is not a real animal lover right now)
Song: Let It Go - from Frozen
Movie: Frozen
Show: Sophia the First
Candy: M&M's
Toy: Elsa doll (this also changes)
Best Friend: Megan (this made my heart so full! I hope that's her answer to that every year!)