Happy 3rd Birthday Mimi!

This is the first time Mimi actually understood what a birthday was. Well, she probably doesn't know that 3 short years ago, I birthed her, but she knows that on a birthday, you get cake and presents.

So I had made a cake for her birthday. I didn't have a round pan, so I made a square cake and trimmed the sides. Then I put on a top layer of frosting and set it up on top of the microwave to finish later. Unfortunately, Mimi had other plans. While i was cooking and my hands were full, she pulled up her chair, carefully lifted the plate off the microwave, took a spoon out of the drawer, and started eating. She had taken a few bites when I realized what she was doing. I started to stop her, but then realized that it really didn't matter. So I pulled out the candles and let her decorate it, and we sang to her and she opened her presents.

We got her a Barbie, a doctor's kit, and a Yo Gabba Gabba Puzzle. She loves opening presents and kept asking for them. She also got a pink laptop from her Montana Grandparents, and a baby doll from her Wisconsin Grandparents.

Maybe the third time is a charm

We had tried to potty train Mimi before, actually, about a year ago. It didn't go well. She peed in her potty a few times, but then started peeing on the carpet, which is kind of hard to clean up. Eventually she started to use her potty as a place for her dolls to hang out, and then Buddy ate all the chewy parts, like the seat, and we gave up. A few weeks ago, we bought a musical potty and started to try again. We figured that she's three now, and is probably ready. Of course, Mimi would differ. She would get all crabby when we talked to her about the potty. We would say, "Now that you are a big girl, you can go potty on the big girl potty" and she would freak out and scream "No!" Now that she is approximately the size and appearance of a five year old, we thought it might be time to get her out of diapers. Didn't go so well. The only way I got her to stay on her potty was by giving her a mini M&M ever twelve seconds or so. She peed once, and then refused to sit on it again. This is getting ridiculous. Pretty soon she will be able to change her own diapers.

Cute!

I've been holding on to these pictures for a while, really for no good reason. I guess they were so awesome that I kinda wanted to keep them to myself. Then I went to visit Grandma Laqueata and Granddaddy Jack in Georgia on Sunday, and I saw that ever since I stopped printing out pictures, Grandma has had to copy pictures from my blog to put in frames. And I tend to resize my pictures on this blog to save space. So I am uploading these pictures, full sized, so anybody can click on them and save them to their computers for printing or whatever.