That’s what Amelia told me when she woke up this morning.  I love that she doesn’t pronounce things correctly.  We did most of the celebrating yesterday, even though today is her actual birthday.  We have 9am church, and Darryl had to leave right after church for the airport. 

Friday night Darryl set up the Geotrax train set so it would be there when Amelia woke up in the morning.  I love how little kids are excited by little things.  Darryl told Amelia to go see what mommy and daddy got her for her birthday.  The first thing she saw was a truck, so she said very excitedly, “a truck!”  Kathryn has enjoyed the train as much as Amelia, which is great.  And we got enough (through a great deal on Craigslist) that both girls could actually make separate tracks to play with. 

Kathryn and Daniel got her some slippers.  Kathryn has slippers, so Amelia has been wanting and asking for some.  I searched all over for slippers, but stores are not selling them right now;  only flip flops.  So I finally checked out DI, and voila: blue fuzzy slippers just her size.  She also got a play-doh set from Grandma and Grandpa that I really want to spend an evening playing with. 

A highlight was the cake.  Amelia wanted  bear cake.  I decided a panda bear would be cool, after seeing a youtube video on how to make one.  Amelia helped with the frosting, mostly for tasting. 

We got black food coloring and boy did that chocolate frosting get black.  I ran upstairs for a minute and came down to see Daniel like this.

The cake turned out pretty well!

Of course, eating black frosting and chocolate cake looks a little like eating tar.  Good thing it was bath night.

 Amelia has always been full of personality.  From the moment she was born and we knew she was not Adriana (what I planned on naming her).  I don’t know how else to explain it, she is just so bouncy.  She loves Wonder Pets, Dora, bears, sidewalk chalk, sliding, swinging, dancing, doing tricks, and especially jumping.  I can’t say I don’t believe she is three, because it seems like she has been three for awhile.  She keeps up pretty well with her big sister, I guess.  Happy Birthday, Amelia!

Posted by Amanda on Sunday, May 16th, 2010 at 8:45 pm.