Three Years Old!

Our girl turned three years old yesterday!  We had quite the weekend visiting Aunt Jamie for Spring Sing and celebrating with my family there and then celebrated with Chet's family last night.

One Day Old

One Year Old

Two Years Old

Three Years Old!

On Friday, we had a girls trip out the American Girl store for Hannah's birthday.  I found this cute matching outfit for Hannah and her baby and we surprised her with it on Friday morning.  We ate lunch at the American Girl Bistro where Jill (the doll) had her own high chair and cup and plate.  Hannah thought that was just the neatest thing.  Then she had a lot of fun shopping in the store later and spending her birthday money on new outfits for her baby dolls.

On Saturday, we headed up to Oklahoma City for Spring Sing and we celebrated with my family in between shows.  Hannah's only request for her cake was for it to be pink.  So I made a strawberry cake. I found a cute idea to make edible tea cups online one day while killing time and remembered how much Hannah loved riding the teacups in Disney World and how much she loves Alice.  So I took the idea and ran with it and came up with a Mad Hatter's Tea Party Birthday Cake.  (I have been watching Cake Boss too much!)  Hannah loved it which is all that matters!

Happy Birthday, Hannah Jane!  We love you so much!

Spring Sing!

We headed to Oklahoma Christian this weekend to catch my sister in Spring Sing.  Spring Sing is the big show every year where all of the Social Service Clubs pick a theme to parody with host/ hostess songs in between.  The theme this year was TV Reruns so we saw shows about Mr. Rogers, Blues Clues, Cops, and Minnie Mouse and heard songs from Sesame Street, Friends, CSI, Full House, and the Wonder Years.  We had a blast watching my sister in the Freshman show as Blues Clues and seeing my former club, Gamma Rho, as Minnie Mouse.

And for old times sake...  Spring Sing was always one of my favorite times of year when I was at OC.

Me and my friends Lisa and Christa.  Christa and I were Whos from Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  I think Lisa's club did some kind of jungle theme that year... ?

Countdown!

We love counting down the days to big events and vacations at our house.  The anticipation and planning is almost as exciting as the event and vacation itself.  We've always done digital countdowns on our computers but Hannah is old enough now that I thought it would be fun for her to be able to help "mark" the days off.  Plus it is a great way for her learn her numbers!

We actually have two countdowns right now.  The first is that this sweet girl is going to be three next week!  Birthdays are a big deal for her right now.  We talk often about when all of the family birthdays are and she has been able to tell us her birthday is March 6 for several months now.

To help her know when March 6 is, I came up with this easy countdown.  Every day we take off one clothespin, count the pins, and write the new number.

Our other countdown is for our next Disney Cruise.  We are heading in a few weeks to Los Angeles to cruise the Mexican Riviera and for a couple of days in Disneyland.  We are excited about this trip because it has no "business meetings" and is all fun.  We are also really excited because Mamaw and Granddad (my parents) are coming with us this time!

I had so much fun making this countdown.  It is a mini-muffin tin with magnetic circles.  Every morning, Hannah takes off one circle to reveal a little treat like a few M&M's or mini-Vanilla wafers.  As she gets older, I plan to include clues about our upcoming vacation like the resort we are staying at, if we are going on a cruise, etc.

Hannah loves taking off one circle!  She jumps out of the bed in the morning and runs to it first thing.  Sometimes the promise of taking off a circle is the only thing to get her out of bed in the mornings.  I also made Christmas circles to use as our advent calendar.

We have a big week coming up!  We are heading to Oklahoma Christian for Spring Sing to watch my sister in the Freshman Show.  Their theme is Blue's Clues. I am also excited that my Gamma girls chose Minnie Mouse this year for their theme.  So appropriate!

Our girl is also turning three.  For her birthday, my mom is taking Hannah (and me, too!) to the American Girl Store in Dallas.  More on that soon!

"Turn around, turn around, turn around..."

Last night, we took Hannah to see these guys, the Imagination Movers.  For those of you without little kids, they are a band that play kids' music with a rock edge.  Meaning they play kids' music that Mom and Dad actually enjoy listening to!  The Imagination Movers also have a tv show on the Disney Channel where they play their songs and use their imaginations to solve problems.

Hannah loves the Movers and we do, too!  We were already impressed with them and their story, and were even more so last night.  We loved watching the guys come out into the audience, not afraid to dance and interact with the kids.  We were also impressed that they ended their concert with, "God Bless."

Hannah had a great time at the concert!  She was a little star-struck for the first half, but really got into the music during the second half!

Mickey the Snowman

Fun with Characters

One of Hannah's (and Mom and Dad's) favorite things to do in Walt Disney World is to visit the characters.  We love planning meals with them so we can spend more time with them without having to wait in line!

Breakfast with Tigger, Pooh, Alice & the Mad Hatter, and Mary Poppins

A hug from Goofy during the parade.

Breakfast with the Princesses

Marie, from Aristocats

Dinner with Farmer Mickey, Pluto, Chip and Dale

Disney's newest character, Duffy the Bear.  He is Mickey's bear that travels the world with him.  Thanks to Disney's marketing (and fun money from Nan and Pops), Hannah has her own Duffy now.

Breakfast with Mickey, Pluto, Lilo & Stitch
(These are some of my favorites from the trip... love her expression!)

Tell Flynn Rider to "Go Away!"

Hannah loves Disney's newest princess, Rapunzel, from their new movie, Tangled.  She has the dress, several Rapunzel dolls, coloring books, and soon we will have the movie.  So, of course, we needed to meet Rapunzel while we were in Walt Disney World.

The Rapunzel Meet and Greet area is really cute!  Several families are let in to the area at a time.  While you are waiting for Rapunzel to come, the children are invited to a large table in the middle where they can color a picture.  Then Rapunzel comes out with Flynn Rider and they dance around the table with the children.  Then it is time to meet Rapunzel and Flynn!

Hannah has a thing about meeting the princes and other boys.  She won't go near a princess if her prince is with her.  She won't talk to Aladdin, Peter Pan or the Mad Hatter.  Hannah so wanted badly wanted to meet Rapunzel until she realized that Flynn Rider would be there with her.  After waiting for over an hour to see her, we wanted to this to go smoothly (and she was wearing her Rapunzel dress!).  Thankfully, the cast members understood and had Flynn hide behind a gate when it was Hannah's turn.  Hannah had her eyes closed until we told her that he was gone.  She opened her eyes and ran to Rapunzel!