Today was Brooke’s 3rd Birthday Party. She wanted an orange party and AJ and I think we did a pretty good job making everything orange including orange only food. We all dressed in orange and had a lot of fun with the many friends who came to celebrate with Brooke.
Brooke is now taking naps about every other day. On the other days she does independent playtime ‘quiet time’ in her room, which she actually loves and favors over naps. Every once in a while she will fall asleep during quiet time. Most of the time it is in her bed but occasionally it is in places like this.
Today was Brooke’s 3rd Birthday! We started it off with muffins for breakfast (per her request) with three candles for her to blow out. Then she got to spend her morning at school where they sang her happy birthday and she got to share and enjoy the mini donuts she wanted to bring to school. They also had a snow cone truck come to school and she got a birthday hawaiian lei with her snow cone. After school she took a nap and then opened all the presents from family. We had her requested favorite food for dinner: hot dogs and macaroni and cheese. Then we all went for surprise ice cream. That is A LOT of fun packed into one 3 year old day!! Happy Birthday Brooke!
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Brooke reading on her morning commute to school.
Brooke’s hair had been getting really long and we decided that since her 3rd birthday was coming up soon that this would be a good time to get her first haircut. Today AJ was off so we could all go as a family. For her first time we took her to a kids only place with fun chairs for them to sit in, animal crackers, and cartoons. Brooke choose to sit in the airplane and did an amazing job. She never even cried or was worried, she followed instructions to look up, down etc, and got a beautiful braid after her hair was cut 2 inches shorter. The stylist called her a pro. After we got home she wanted to play ‘haircut’ and did Daddy’s hair after she did mine. Alex even got in the action too keeping her brush warm.
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