Three Year Old Pictures

Three – and lovin’ it!

Turning three was a big deal for Brynn this year.  I think she talked about her birthday and the fact that she was turning three for at least a month before her actual birthday.  Turning three for Brynn meant she was getting big and strong like daddy.  Every day she would say Mom watch and stand up and go “see how big I am getting now”.  This is in addition to the daily Happy Birthday song she would sing to herself and the confirmation from mom that I would have a candle for her to blow out on her birthday.

I'm Three!!

We celebrated her birthday this past week with a spaghetti dinner (at her request), a hot pink cake with sprinkles (which she decorated), a few presents, and of course – candles.  Happy Birthday to my Baby Brynn, you are growing up to be such a sweet little girl with such a kind heart and spunky personality.

Decorating her cake!

Happy Birthday to Brynn!!

Her favorite part!!

Lions and Tigers and Bears and Rides!!

Brynn had such a fun weekend she could barely contain herself.  The weather was perfect and the weekend was jammed packed of family friendly events.  Cameron and Brynn started the weekend off with their usual Friday night swimming date.  Nothing like burning off some energy doing cannon balls into the pool.  Go Brynn!!  Then Saturday we were off to a BBQ followed up by a trip to the Orange County Fair. 

It worked our perfect.  There was another family that was at the BBQ with children right around Brynn’s age.  So they ran around chasing each other and played so nicely together.  By the time we go to the fair Brynn and this other little girl were best buds.  We first checked out all the farm animals, including the newly born piglets that were teeny tiny.  But I still think the chickens were Brynn’s favorite.  The rides were a hit and the girls spent a good hour running from ride to ride holding hands.  What a fun but late evening.  We were all exhausted.

Fun at the Fair!!

Biker Babe!

The next day we were off to the circus.  Brynn was shocked by all of the animals.  She could not believe how large the elephants were.  She thought the clowns were pretty silly but was not quite sure what to think of the trapeze artists.  We all made it to intermission and it was time to go home.  Brynn was a trooper and did not complain even through the circus performance was during her nap time but we were all so exhausted from the night before and thought it was best to leave before one of us had a meltdown.  So home we went where we each took a 3 hour nap.   

Amazed by the Elephants.

Sunday Funday

What a great Sunday….  Pancakes for breakfast, a stop off at the park, a long afternoon nap, and making cookies in the evening.  Brynn’s favorite part of the day was making cookies for all the neighbors.  We rolled out green and red cookie dough (I guess we were celebrating Christmas in July) and used cookie cutters to make the shapes.  We made hearts, dog bones, houses, snowmen and gingerbread men.  She called the gingerbread men “Benjamin” and every time I tried to correct her she got more and more insistent that I was saying “Benjamin”.  Funny girl.  Once the cookies were done baking we had to frost them.  Brynn chose blue frosting with fish sprinkles.  I think we had all of the holidays and seasons covered.  Red and green cookie dough, heart and gingerbread cookie cutters, blue frosting and fish sprinkles.  They were very colorful and full of character.  All the neighbors loved them and Brynn was so proud of her cookies.   

Concentrating!!

So proud!!