THREE!!!

we're not actually having her party for a couple weeks... it worked better to have one party for both girls, and since tatum's birthday cake-eating has to coincide with her galactose challenge (for duarte galactosemia), we are doing the party on tatum's birthday. anyway, we did some celebrating this week and she got family gifts on tuesday. nana was in town early this week she took us to clay's resturant to celebrate! the girls had fun playing in the sand and petting lots of animals! we will definately go back! it was an unseasonably cool day, so very pleasant.

we are two very proud parents of our big three year old. below she is holding her new barbie doll we gave her. she calls it bobby. it goes against my grain slightly to give my daughter such girlie gifts since i was such a tomboy, but she has no interest whatsoever in sports, so i have already relinquished my hopes of her being the next cat osterman. i may as well indulge her girlyness!
today while we played outside i made a bargain with her that if i swung her "super-high" in her swing, she had to play baseball with me. begrudgingly she came and stood about 3 feet away from me. after about 3 tosses, she said "i think i'll just go play with belle-belle now". yes, that is my girlie-girl.

she loves her new car from gigi. it took a little guidance on brian's part to teach her how to steer, but she finally got the hang of it. now, look out, she is fearless!


here she is holding her new pink MP3 shaker and her $$$. she has no idea why she should be excited about that green paper... oh the innocence~
she is quite a singer. she knows the words to more songs than i do. recently i've been singing her "my chains are gone (amazing grace)" before bed, mostly because i need to hear myself say those words. but anyway, tonight she asked me to sing "the chain song" and she sang right along to most of the words. i think i might need to start thinking high school choir or band for her. arghh!


by the way, tatum is much better. thanks for praying. her appetite is back and she is happy and sweet again. thank you Lord! and please pray for her to easily pass the above mentioned galactose challenge! thanks!