"little" Whitney is 3!!

Whitney is so big! This is her night-before-her-birthday cake. (we wanted to go out on her birthday, so we did the cake beforehand. This is kind of becoming a tradition...) She decided she wanted BUG stuff for her birthday, so thank you to my Hello Cupcake book, we made some amazing bugs.

And after she blew out the candles I took them out of the cake and she reached for one and took a bite! I guess I forgot to remind her that you don't eat the candles! Here she is spitting them out!
Her birthday morning- she opened most of her presents right away. She hugged her Dora flashlight from Grandma,
jumped around when she opened "Tangled" (and so did I, I had been dying to see that movie again, I love it!)
and spent a lot of time playing with her new Dora brush and blow dryer. She got a ton of really fun presents!
I made cupcakes for her bug-themed "party"- aka everyone meet us at the park and bring your own lunch. The bugs worked better than I thought they would, and the party was fun.
Everyone sang to her and she was happy. FYI she looks chubby because she is wearing 3 shirts. :)
We went to play at this particular park because it has big bug play things to go with her theme. This is Whitney and her good friend Ellaina.
This was the best- for days before her birthday Whitney had been telling us she wanted rocks and sticks for her birthday! So I put on the invites "if you want to bring her a present, pick a rock or stick from your yard to give her." so when the other kids were giving her sticks and rocks she was a little confused! This is her face when she opened a present from her friend- with a big rock in it! She was like "what?!" but then she laughed and liked it because it was painted.
That evening we went to McDonalds (because of the playplace) and Cafe Rio for dinner, and the girls were thrilled with their happy meal toys.

Then we went to the dollar movies to see Gnomeo and Juliet. It was a little funny, alright movie. And as you can see it was in 3D!

so cute.
Whitney had a great birthday! And also, here are our tulips in all their glory. In the front flower garden:
And the new ones by the front window. They grew to be HUGE! And beautiful. They are one of my favorite things about our house.