I don't know about any of you, but I just cannot believe my baby girl is three years old. THREE! That's just crazy to me. In some ways, it just feels weird that it's only been three years. Hasn't Emersyn always been a part of my life? What was there before her? Who was I before being Emersyn's Mommy? In other ways though, it really feels like I just had her. Didn't the doctors and nurses just finally leave us alone with this gorgeous little baby? Wasn't I just adjusting the hospital bed so that I could lay down and still see Emersyn in that plastic bassinet? Weren't we just saying how we don't want to tell anyone we're home, so that we don't have to share her yet?
Where did three years go? And how did it get there so fast? What happened to those days that really lasted hundreds of hours, with the screaming and crying? Surely that had to slow time down a bit, enough to even out the really incredible days where we blinked and the whole day was over already. Right? I know time wasn't moving like this when I was pregnant with Emersyn. That's for sure!
Anyways, the day has come... and, well now it's passed... Emersyn has turned three years old. Another year has ended, and new one begun. No matter how much I'd like to, there's just no stopping the fact that Emersyn is growing up. Miracle that she is, we of course celebrated in style!
Emersyn got to pick her theme this year - another first showing just how grown up she's getting - and the little fanatic declared she wanted a Mickey Mouse party. We happily obliged!!
The day really got started Saturday night, when Emersyn insisted she wear her (almost too small) Minnie Mouse pjs to get ready for her party. Seriously, that's what she told me and would not listen to me that she's going to change before the party. Still, it's festive... especially with the Mickey ears headband she put on the second she woke up!
We "finished" decorating after Emersyn was down for her nap, but I won't bore you with the pictures of (all my hard labor turned absolutely fabulous) decor. We can't not share the cake though! Emersyn pretty much designed it herself too. I printed out a bunch of pictures I found online and she went through them picking out her favorites. This is the result...
I ended up having to go wake the birthday girl up after her nap ran longer than normal and our house started filling up with her guests. But despite telling me she was going to be shy, Emersyn was ready to see her party!
Once downstairs, Emersyn was pretty overwhelmed. Basically everyone showed up before she was even awake, so it was a lot to walk into. She basically stayed attached to me for a little while, but slowly allowed me to at least sit down around people...
It didn't take too long for Emersyn to warm up though. Soon enough she was the perfect hostess...
Then it was everyone's favorite part of any party - the time for cake!!
After Chris gave Emersyn her piece - the clubhouse on the very top - she was just too amazed to be bothered with pictures, even with Daddy.
They say a picture speaks a thousand words. I think this one is more like a million!
I won't post all the pictures of Emersyn openning her fabulous presents, but these two basically sum up the whole process for Emersyn. It was a flurry of wrapping paper, tissue paper, and really excited yelps.
When Emersyn opened up her LeapFrog LeapPad (the kid version of an iPad), it was instantly a huge hit. If you didn't see it, we actually had to take it away from her so that she'd continue on to another present.
It was clear immediately after the the last present was open that the cake was kicking in. Although it was a whole lot of fun for Emersyn and Gabrielle, when the cousin-riding started we herded the kids outside for some bubbles!
Naturally the bubbles were a huge hit. I'm pretty sure that Emersyn could have gotten only bubbles for her birthday and she would have thought it was the best presents in the history of birthdays! The other kids seemed to think the same thing!
Of course, by the time everyone was leaving, Emersyn was well past tolerating her guests. She even gave some unprompted hugs and kisses! (Oliver got the most though!)
It wasn't long after everyone left that Emersyn reminded us about something we forgot - her walking Mickey balloon. Leave it to the newly three year old to remember what her parents forgot. I think it ended up being better this way though. I doubt that Emersyn would have been as willing to share Mickey as she was with her toys... or that Mickey would have survived all the attention he was sure to receive.
As we settled down to get ready for (a really long past normal) bed time, Emersyn got to try out her new LeapPad. It was a huge hit and it's hardly been put down since!
This is one of my favorite pictures from the whole day. Emersyn has a game where you get a pet, and in order to make the pet do tricks you have to "write" a letter three times. I helped with the first two "E"s but she did the third all by herself... and you can see how excited she was about that!! (Seriously, this is before the pet did a trick! She actually missed the trick because she was so excited about writing the "E" without any help!)
Now you know we have a ton more pictures from Emersyn's birthday party. We do have some videos, but I still have at least a bazillion to go through from the last couple months. I promise they'll get posted eventually, but for now you'll have to settle on laughing along with all the pictures. And trust me, there's plenty to cause more than a little giggle.
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