The Third Time is Charming

So CPea turned THREE last Friday, the end of a week of celebrations starting with the long awaiting NEMO party. As some of you know, Caroline starting planning this party minutes after the end of her Elmo party last year. She picked the balloon colors, cake design, party favors (bubbles) the whole nine yards. It was a beautiful fall day and we all had a great time.





LPea was a little confused as to what was going on, but was happy to help her sister dig into the cake. Note: no candles this year as CPea is still no fan of flame.



The celebration continued with a party in her preschool class. I had forgotten the grand tradition of construction paper crowns for classroom parties.

As you can see, it was quite a celebration. Dance party and all!



Of course, no birthday is complete without gifts and CPea was thrilled with all of hers, and the wrapping paper!

We had to leave the night of her birthday to go up to Maine for a waterpolo tournament so on the way out of town, we had dinner at Chili's. You know how they do a little song for birthdays-well we asked our server to do it for CPea. They brought over a dessert and starting singing and as they were doing it, I thought it was a really loud song for three people to sing. It turned out that there were several table of cadets that realized it was Scott's daughter's birthday and so they heartily joining in singing Happy Birthday to her. Needless to say, Caroline was so delighted that the 'Cadets who live at Chili's sang her Birthday song."

Being three and starting preschool has brought out a whole new dimension of Caroline. She is loving her class and is learning a lot. Last we she tasked me with finding coincidences. Apparently, she is looking for them and, "Mom, if you see a coincidence, let me know."

I'm still looking.