3!!!

My baby girl is now 3! I can't believe that 3 years ago little Lexie came into the world and made me a Mom. It has been the best experience to watch her grow and I look forward to many more years of us growing together. Her birthday was the day after we got home from CA, so we decided to stay at my parent's house one more night so we could celebrate with the entire family the next day. Here is the little birthday girl all ready for church.

Hoyt kept trying to climb the outside of the stairs, so my dad finally just let him sit up there and he thought he was pretty cool. Lexie then had to join in and sit up there too.

Our birthday parties are simple, but fun. We had a tasty Papa Murphy's pizza dinner after church. Lexie wanted Rapunzel cupcakes for her cake this year. I needed to do something simple since I just got back from vacation and I thought it all turned out way cute.

I loved the cupcake stand I found and Lexie enjoyed eating cupcakes and playing with the Rapunzel rings.

Happy Birthday to you...

The gifts...she loves her Rapunzel dress from Grandpa & Grandma!

She opened her big gift when we got home that night.

Both kids have enjoyed that gift.

At 3 years old Lexie has grown up so much. She loves life and enjoys so many things. Her favorite color is pink, and she is really into Princesses right now. I love how her imagination has grown; listening to her conversations with her toys and animals is always entertaining. She is constantly trying to use big words she has heard and thinks she is a really big kid. Potty training took a while with the 2 moves in less than a year, but once we were back and settled in our house she just starting going on her own and has done great since even at night! Lexie has know her alphabet and sounds of all the letters, colors, shapes and much more for quite a while and is starting to learn to write her name. She loves to have books read to her and then she will sit and "read" them to herself and knows some of her favorites by heart. She also loves going to the library to get new books, then playing at the park that is next to the library. She constantly begs to go ride her new trike outside. Her favorite show is Clifford the Big Red Dog and we often have a little Lexie dog in our house running around; the other day she even told me she had an appointment at the groomers. Her favorite food is pizza and she loves milk, apples, ice cream cones and chocolate; but she has recently started asking for vegetables so she can grow big and strong! Lexie loves going to nursery and singing "I Love to See the Temple" and many other fun songs she learns there. She always reminds us to read scriptures at night, and her prayers are really sweet and sometimes even funny because if she wants something she will pray to get it: like the night she prayed we could eat cookies and go to bed. She also makes me laugh because she tries to imitate me by taking her purse everywhere and has to put her credit cards and coupons in so she can be like Mommy. She is a great big sister and Hoyt just loves her so much and enjoys playing with her--even though she occasionally likes to steal toys and tackle him.

We love our sweet, bubbly Lexie Lou...Happy Birthday!!!