Third Birthday Mini-Bash

Time for Lily's mommy to get caught up on her blog! We have a girly-girl on our hand these days, and when I think back... it all started around her birthday. To celebrate the big 3, Lily asked for a "princess party" with a few of her little girlfriends.

She specifically requested pink frosting on the cupcakes....
Daddy and his little birthday girl

Happy Birthday, Lily!

Hard to believe that Lily is THREE years old! As is our family tradition, we let her start off the day with a cupcake for breakfast (like on her first and second birthdays).

J and I spent the day with Lily and then after dinner, she opened a few presents. She screamed, "A Princess Movie!!!" when she opened this one...

She loves the rain, so Noah picked out a rain coat, wellies and umbrella for his big sister.

Getting ready to dig into her Curious George cake

Fun w/ Mikey & Sarah

Lily was so excited for Mike & Sarah's visit! She brought Aunt Sarah to her ballet class... And later that afternoon, we all went to Haines Point to fly kites

Keep trying, Uncle Mikey!!

But there wasn't enough wind, so we blew bubbles instead.

Lily also received some early birthday presents...
... complete with a music-playing card that she LOVES!

New laptop

Noah got a new ride-on train... thanks, M&S!

Happy little photo before Noah's baptism

Nats Game

The upside of the Nats less-than-stellar season is that you can pretty much always get inexpensive seats to a ball game.

Here is Lily on her way in... she insisted on walking through the turnstile and holding her own ticket. Daddy and his happy little Mini-Me

Lily gives GW some love.

White House Easter Egg Roll

This was the first year we attempted to get tickets for the White House Easter Egg Roll. Overall, it was a fun afternoon! Here are a few highlights...

The line moved surprisingly fast... here we are in a "holding area" waiting to get in. Lily was surprisingly patient.Starting to move again... look how far away we still are!
Getting closer...
The first thing we saw once we made it on the grounds? CLIFFORD! Lily squealed and ran right up to him...

"Oh, Clifford... I love you."

The PBS characters all had handlers... here we are giving Curious George a quick high-five as he was being escorted away.
Lily posing with her Daddy and Sid the Science Kid (Noah is on J's back)
Family photo in front of the Obama Family's new digs
Of course we had to stop and say hi to the Easter Bunny!
Jeremy squealed like a little kid when he realized Ben Olsen was in the house :)
Waiting to play a little soccer
Lily's second favorite character... Word Girl!
We had fun walking around the grounds before heading home.
Very cool to see the event take on a play-related theme... you can my brief work blog entry here.

Lily's Fun, Busy Weekend

Snuggles for her Mommy before we left for ballet class Getting ready for an Easter egg hunt on Saturday
Digging through her Easter basket on Sunday morning
Easter bunny impression
A fun afternoon on the Mall later in the day... one of our stops was the Museum of American History (where Lily and her mama made faces like Stephen Colbert).

Fun Pics from J's phone

Enjoying a Valentine's Day cupcake at school
Breakfast at Sidamo
Action shot at the playground
Snuggling with Grandpa
First trip to the dentist... she did great!
Mmm... hot cocoa

Cherry Blossoms

One of the best parts of walking around DC in the springtime.

Ballerina

Lily starts ballet class on Saturday!