Happy Birthday Ellie!

My baby is 3! How can that be? She's been so excited for this Birthday and has been telling everyone she sees that "it's my birthday!" When you ask her what she got she'll tell you "cupcakes." This is actually true because as you can see in the pictures below she got a set of plastic cupcakes that you can decorate with markers. I knew this present would be a hit because of how long she had played with it in the toy store the other day (Kaleidoscope toys- love that store). And I was right, they've provided hours of fun already. And it came with the cutest little oven mitt that she puts on to stick the pan in the oven. Love it!!

Turning 3 is a big deal at our house because of 2 things. First, we say good bye to binkie. She's used her binkie for sleeping only ever since she was 2, (and for everything before that) but 3 year olds don't use binkies so we had to send them off to heaven this morning. Here she is with the binkies tied to the Snow White balloon.............
Getting ready to let go outside...............

She did it!! This was the cutest moment ever. She just stood there and waved and shouted "bye bye binkies!!" We watched until we couldn't see them any more and she wasn't even sad!

I loved it when she said, "my binkies flied over the roof mom!"

The second big thing that happens when you turn 3 at our house is that you also say good bye to diapers. Wish me luck, tomorrow is potty training day!