Ashley is Three!

We had a party over the weekend to celebrate Ashley's third birthday as well as let everyone meet Miss Caitlin. After weeks of decision making, Ashley decided on a Nemo cake - which has possibly been her longest running favorite character/movie to date. She had a two-tiered cake with Nemo and Dori squirters on them and Nemo cookies for her friends to take home (though, several went missing during the party and Ashley had an orange face!) There was quite a storm near the start of the party, with horrible winds and down pouring rains. Luckily, it blew through fairly quickly and the 90s temperatures dropped to the 70s. The kids enjoyed running around the house and after the rain quit and cooled off, it was wonderful for Ashley to play outside with her new present from her grandma, a T-Ball set. She's been practicing and is getting pretty good. I've been trying to post pictures, but the website is angry at me :/ I'll have to see if I can figure it another time so I don't delay posting this any longer!

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First Jeep Ride!

With the weather in the 60-70s all week, Pete took off his hard top and Ashley got to go on her first Jeep ride!  Just went around the neighborhood and then to the park :)

Big Girl Bed!

I've been lacking at updating this site (so be ready for lots of updates from the last few months!)  but wanted to share that....

Ashley is currently napping in her big girl bed!!!  I'm spying on her now with the video monitor!

Pete put some new ladybug lights above her bed yesterday and she's been super excited about it and today she told me she wanted to nap in her big girl bed.  I didn't think she'd actually fall asleep!  Now I just hope the bed bumpers work and she doesn't fall out!

Sorry for the lighting, she had on a green light and I wasn't going to chance turning it off!

UPDATE: Ashley napped for almost 3 hours!  Then she woke up and I was curious to see how she'd react.  She actually just looked through a book, sang some songs and crawled around under the covers.  After close to 30 minutes, she still didn't get out of bed or call for us, so Pete and I went to her room.  She was so excited that she slept in there!

Unfortunately, she was too scared to sleep in her new room that night, but she said she wanted to nap in her big girl bed tomorrow.  Baby steps!

UPDATE: Ashley slept in her big girl bed Saturday, March 10th!  Didn't get up once and didn't even get out of bed when she woke up!!

Going on a leaf hunt!

I organized a playdate to go look for different colored leaves at the forest preserve.  The downfall, there was water!  The toddlers were quite interested in getting too close for comfort!  Wouldn't you know they had the most fun running around and playing with the trees!

A Girly Girl

I bought a bunch of photography "props" which Ashley immediately had to try on!  She loves to dress up and put on her pearls!  They are now dress up clothes!