evergreen drive: happy birthday hannah!

The third birthday celebration started on Friday morning with a preschool party. Hannah wore her cupcake outfit and Joe, Joseph, and I brought cupcakes for the class. {Not store-bought ones - we wanted to make them so they'd actually taste good and we could eat the leftovers.} They sang to her and she was a little shy.

Saturday night we went to a Japanese steakhouse for dinner. The last (her first) time we took her was a year ago and she loved it. This time she was scared at first. {There was the banging of loud drums when we walked in. She didn't know what we were doing.}

After a little bit, she warmed up and had a good time watching the extra-silly chef.

They sang to her and brought her sherbert (and her very own kid chopsticks to keep!) and then we sang again and gave her a cupcake with candles. Her blowing has dramatically improved since last year.

Sunday the 9th, her actual birthday, she went up to the children's sermon for the first time. She was very excited about getting to do that. Usually half-way through the service (sometimes earlier) I take her to the toddler nursery, but she's a big three year-old now! No more baby stuff for this girl. I snuck in a picture with my phone very discreetly.

Afterwards, I tried to get a picture of the birthday girl, she wasn't really interested. On purpose, she moved around as much as possible.

Finally after lunch I got that one of her in the gazebo from a couple posts ago.

Acting shy again while being sung to.

She loved her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake. {Thanks Meme for bringing from Savannah!}

Present opening time, another improvement from last year, went a lot faster.

Yes, golf clubs from Meme. Real...and pink! This may seem strange to you, but she has worn out her plastic clubs so it was time for an upgrade. The girl likes to golf. We are fine with that. Uncle Ben helped her (and was a tad jealous) as she practiced putting through Poppy's legs.

...I will be glad when the cheesy-smile phase ends.

Playing with her new easel from Momma and Daddy - a supervised activity we have decided. Wonder how soon it will be before there is paint on the chalkboard or regular markers on the dry-erase board. Any guesses?