Charlotte's Birthday Celebrations

Yes, that's right, no errors there, Charlotte had many a birthday celebrations as she turned three. Over Memorial Day weekend, Grampa and Grammy came to visit to babysit while we attended a wedding and to celebrate Charlotte and Grammy's birthdays together. We did this up by my grandparents house for a small family celebration. There Charlotte received an awesome puppet theatre made lovingly by my grampa, and furnished with puppets by my grandparents and Grampa and Grammy. (And unfortunately I have no pictures of the puppet theatre yet, because I am usually the one doing the puppet show!)


Charlotte with the adorable bunny puppet that Grammy made.

On the eve of Charlotte's birthday we took her to see a FREE concert by the Chicago Children's Concert. Charlotte was absolutely enthralled, and even got to stay up way past her bedtime. We did have to leave the concert early just because Charlotte would not have made it through the whole concert.


On Charlotte's birthday we first headed to the doctor's office for Charlotte's 3 year check up. (I felt completely OK doing this, as I knew she wasn't going to get any shots.) Plus, because it was her birthday she got a TON of stickers! Oh, and she cried, yes, cried, because she didn't get any shots! I guess we have her pretend doctor's kit to thank for her being absolutely comfortable with wanting shots. I'll have to remind her of this next year when she is scheduled to get shots! Then we headed to Pump It Up with Charlotte's best friend Ava. It was great that it was a fabulous day in Chicago because Pump It Up was empty! We had the place to ourselves for the first and last 20 minutes of jumping, and when there were others there it was just two other families. Afterwards we enjoyed pizza at Pizza Hut.






Saturday was Charlotte's tea party birthday party attended by girlfriends and their moms. It was so fun to plan and enjoy the little (and big) ladies, doing such girly things as playing house, making jewelry, drinking tea and lemonade, and of course, dancing!


I'm including the picture of the cake I made, just because I am so proud of it! It's a black forest cake (Charlotte picked the flavor) with gummy butterflies on top (courtesy of my mom, who, it seems, always has those great finds!)



Playing in the "hit" birthday present. Got this FREE from someone from church who was getting rid of it. Charlotte absolutely loves it, and we're glad she does, since she seems to hate the bike (which we paid for) that we got her.

Now, it's on to planning Elijah's 1st birthday celebration!