Karlee turned 3!

My baby girl is 3.  She is my favorite 3 year old.  She is so sweet and so kind.  She is also, so 3.

She is quite the manipulator, and the queen of stalling.  She will come up with 30 reason why she cant do something like go to bed, take a nap or eat her dinner.  She is thirsty, needs to go potty, her mouth is too cold for hot dinner, her eyes are too tired to look at her food.  She need to sing a song, she needs a hug.  The girl knows every excuse in the book.  I have NO IDEA where she gets it from.  haha that is a lie.  She gets it from her mama.  I am the first queen of excuses.

She has also learned things like spitting, throwing things, taking off her shoes where ever we go, yesterday she took off her pants while we were out to dinner.  She says things like, mom dont throw me down, if I try to hold her hand, or mom, dont hit me, if I try to pick her up.  She is so much like me its scary.

When she gets nervous, she always says, Mom, I need hugs.  I love her.  She tells me, oh mom, this is going to be good, when she is excited about something.  She knows she had a birthday, and she still keeps saying when asked how old she is.... Im going to be three.
She corrects people when they say the yellow fish... no thats a tang, and the pink one is anthius.

She looks after Zane.  If he is getting into trouble she come and finds an adult and says, hey.. wheres zane?  which means, zane is doing something he shouldnt and i saw but i am not going to be the one to tell on him.
She doesnt like to leave the house until she knows Zane is coming with.
Every saturday morning she asks her daddy to snuggle with her on the couch while they sleep and watch cartoons.  Its cute so that helps that allen spends the morning sleeping.  He gets a pass.  She loves to snuggle with Allen and watch the fish at night too.

For her birthday we had a back yard party with all the cousins.  Allen built a new playground and they all came over to play on it.  There were several crash's and a few bumps, but Briggs got the worst of it with a door handle to the eyebrow and a trip to the emergency room.  (he didnt end up needing stitches but it was a bad one.)  Jen made Karlee's adorable Toy story cake.  We all loved it.  Especially Karlee.   Girl just loves CAKE.

She got a new helmet for her bike, some barbies, a couple new swim suits and tons of other great stuff.  She is spoiled and i love her.  Happy birthday cake Karlee bug.

Brad and Brad

Two of my great friends who have both passed away.  I miss them both and think about them often.  I hope they are watching over me, my family and all of our friends.  Heaven is sure to be a party with those two around.

random goodies

Warm- and warmish weather really brings our family to life.  I feel like a new person when we can just get out side and play.  Here are a few random goodies from lately.
-Grandma and Grandpa Allen are leaving on one of their adventures for the next 3 weeks, missing mothers day and Karlee's birthday.  So we went up and visited with them before they left.
Karlee picked out a fat elephant with dangling legs, and Zane picked a sparkly rock to give to Grandma Allen for mothers day.
They gave Karlee her birthday present since they were not going to be here... and we played with it for a while in their back yard.  Its a bubble fan.

The other day I stopped by DI, to see if there were any good finds.  I found one of my favorite friends, Kenzie and a couple of night stands.  Kenzie was there doing the same thing.  Great minds think a like.  Anyway, for $15 I got some awesome night stands (super ugly).
I hurried home and refinished 1 of them before Allen got home from work.  I knew I had to or they would go straight to the garbage.  Turns out he loves them just as much as I do. 

Above: Before

After!!!!  I love the blue.  They will be so cute in our bedroom.  Now i just need to put the handles back on and paint the other one.

My sassy Diva.

Karlee is such a girly girl.  Diva is her middle name.  No, its Montana, but it should be Diva.

Fancy nails, cheetah flats, and putting on a concert in her bedroom for her barbies.

(instead of taking a nap)

Karlee's First "real drawing"

Look who it is!!!

Its Uncle B. 

I asked Karlee if she wanted to write Brad a letter to send to him on his mission the other day.  She sat down and started drawing.  She said, Uncle B, I miss you.  I draw your nose, I draw hims feet, I draw hims eyes.... and you shirt.

I turned around to see what she had drawn and this was it.  I was so surprised.  Usually all we get are scribbles.  This actually looks like a person, or something.  I am so proud of my little artist.  Good work Karlee :) I love it.  I already emailed a picture of it to Uncle B and he loves it too.  I would send it to him, but this is a keeper for sure.