B and b and Zoe makes three...: 3 years + 1 month

Happy 3rd Birthday Zoe!

Having a December birthday is hard...it's always a busy time, it's too close to Christmas, Zoe's Daddy is usually away on tour, it's too close to mommy's birthday and so on. So to make Zoe's birthday special, we celebrated her birthday with a party in January.

Here's a few highlights from the party...

Zoe still has a lot to learn about sharing...no one could play with the one and only pot in her play kitchen. Of course, that's what the babies wanted most. Here's the little brat swiping the pot away from baby Isaac. (Baby Vincent lost the fight earlier - poor thing!)

Zoe is as long as the slide...I guess it's time to get a new one!

There was one toy casualty from the party...the bubble maker got sand stuck in the on/off button. So the maker got stuck in the "on" position until it died. I guess we'll have to get a new one of those too!!

Here's where the sand came from...

We don't have the room/space for a traditional "hit with a stick" pinata, so I got a "pull the strings" pinata. The kids pull one string at a time until the one magical string is pulled that releases all the goodies that sends kids into a tizzy! Zoe pulled the first string. Then Kyle came up and pulled all the rest...oops! Oh well, that didn't go so well. Kyle did leave the magical last string hanging and Zoe got the honors to open up the pinata!

I don't think the kids minded too much about the pinata problem once all the candy and toys came flying out! Grace H. kindly helps Zoe get some candy!

Zoe has been wanting a "Cars" birthday for several months now-she saw a picture of one at Baskin-Robbins back in September and never forgot about it. Well it's not an ice cream cake, but Zoe was excited just the same. Of course, I could have given her a vat of butter cream frosting and she would have been in high heaven!

Zoe got a little shy when "Happy Birthday" was being sung!

Zoe got her hands on one of "Cars" decorations (Guido) hanging from the chandelier and decided to use it to shovel frosting into her mouth (notice the yellow frosting on the car.) Also notice that one of the "arms" is missing. Not quite sure what happened to it. It could have fallen off when it got pulled down, it could have fallen off in the cake, could have fallen to the floor. Most likely, Zoe ate it.

Note to self: do NOT give in to the doe eyes of a little girl begging to open a present when other kids are still at the party...because just one turns into all of them. And all the other kids want to "help" her open them. They got so excited that Zoe even got pushed out of opening her own presents!! Ah, the exuberance of kids!