*seems like magic to me*

Happy Birthday Baby Girl...

Mia just had her 3rd birthday yesterday. Looking at the pictures from last year makes her seem so grown up this year. Her present to me this year was to decide she is ready to use the real toilet instead of soiling herself and letting me clean it off her. It was a great gift... almost made childbirth worth it. Since this accomplishment she's often made the comment "I am a big girl now." To which her older brother replies... "Just because you decided to go potty doesn't magically turn you into a big girl." Well, it seems like magic to me- just yesterday I held this tiny newborn and now I turn around and she is magically a big girl.

Here's some of the facets of my little diamond...

*she is very interested in knowing people's names and is always asking me questions like "What's Kate's mom's name again?"
*she wants either 500 hair things in her hair at a time (barrettes, hair ties, clips, headbands... you name it) or nothing at all. She will pull out pigtails without fail about 10 minutes after I do her hair.
*there is nothing better in the world than the look on her face when I can tell she feels "pretty"
*loves to dress up and favorite characters to portray are Lois Lane, Super girl, or princesses.
*sam and Mia love to play "games" together with their "friends forever" (stuffed animals) "Let's go play a game Mia."
*she loves the frosting, but not the cake.
*she'll eat many things most kids would turn up their nose at... including: raw bell peppers, avocado, greek olives, onions, cherry tomatoes, celery... you name it. But she's not big into carbs-- crackers, bread, etc.
*her potty training treat is Belgian chocolate chips. What a high maintenance little thing!
*she loves dressing up her Barbies, but especially loves the shoes.
*she's not a big fan of being outdoors when it's cold.
*she is VERY particular about what she wears and picks out her outfit most days. There are some very cute (in my opinion) outfits in her drawers wasting away because they are not pretty enough.
*her favorite color right now is blue- a recent change from pink.
*she can't fall asleep with out her pink "blankie" that's fuzzy on one side and satin on the other. She prefers it when the satin is "cold" and will take it outside to make it so.
*her best friend is her brother, Sam.
*she is very smart and knows almost all of her letters and numbers. She can even write a few and practices a lot to keep up with Sam.
*She has this really quirky silly personality and is very social. She's much more comfortable in strange situations than her older brother.
*She can change from Angel to Demon in 3.5 seconds flat.
*She's loves to give mommy and daddy a "swiss kiss" before bedtime... a peck on the right cheek, left cheek and right cheek.




We had a family party on the 17th for her real birthday. We had mac and cheese and baby broccoli for dinner- by request of the birthday girl of course. Then she got to open presents. She was thrilled with the Barbie and Barbie Car she got from the family. Sam got her some Barbie outfits which included shoes and purses. That was a big hit too.


This morning we had a little shin-dig with all of her buddies in the ward to celebrate. The kids ran rampant and the mom's got to sit and chat. She had the sweetest smile on her face when the kids were singing her happy birthday. I made some cupcakes inspired by my sis-in-law Shonda. They had fruit roll-up flowers and suckers. Mia thought they were pretty cool until I put cream cheese frosting. Oops. So we found some store frosting in the cupboard scraped off my (totally yummy) cream cheese frosting and slathered it up good. Considering she only eats the frosting and it was her birthday I spoiled her.




She got some really nice presents from her friends, including a princess dress up, Disney princess dolls, puppets, a Cinderella magnet game, a HUGE coloring book, and a My little pony story book and pony.

Happy Birthday Baby girl. Your family loves you very much!