Happy Birthday, Gracie!

Yesterday, Gracie woke up and she was 3 years old! She was so very excited...

Here's Gracie through the years (all three of them):

Newborn Gracie:

Grace age 1:
Grace age 2:

Grace age 3:

We took all the kids out of school for lunch and went to Chuck-E-Cheese. That's the tradition here - you get to pick where to go for lunch, and since it was Chuck-E-Cheese, we had to include all the kids! School can wait when there's fun to be had.

Her favorite thing to do was the car that took your picture. We ended up with seven of them. And the strangest thing was, she looked exactly the same in every picture! She had her head turned with the same expression on her face. It was weird. You could only tell the difference by who was passing in the background.

I like going there for lunch during school - we had the place almost all to ourselves!

The boys were really excited to sit all by themselves, even though they were right at the next table:

Grace really enjoyed her pizza, but left most of it on the plate because there was just so much to do, and so little time!

I decided to ask Grace what some of her favorite things are, for posterity. Here's her answers:

What's your favorite:

toy: Tinkerbell

show: Kai Lan

movie: Star Wars

food: Spaghetti

person: Emma

place to go: Eat Lunch

color: Orange and Pink

thing: My blankie

thing to do: Play with my brothers

place to go eat: Chuck-E-Cheese

song: Power Rangers songs

book: Bobby

animal: kitty

Grace also wanted me to include these other favorite things: working, laying down in bed, playing kitchen, dancing, going outside, I Am a Child of God, saying my prayers, jumping on the trampoline, fixing things with my daddy, hammering, talking to Mr. Cory

I'm sure she'll let me know if there's anything else.

We're having Andrew and Grace's family birthday party tonight, so hopefully I'll remember to take some pictures.