Carissa's Day of Birthday Fun

Well, Carissa has made it to the grand old age of 3. 

She likes to scare us now and again and fall off things, which makes this quite an achievement, really. 

She has many things she loves and so this birthday, we decided to tap into some of those things.

First, she loves Phineas and Ferb. I put it on one night when I was trying to keep the kids busy while I tried to dig a piece of glass out of my foot and daddy was gone on business, and we ended up watching like 4 episodes and going to bed late that night, but that just started it all. What a fun show :-) 

So I like to make cakes with things they like, so:

Behold! Perry the Platypus!

As soon as I finished this, I had to go to bed with a killer migraine, so I woke up early the next morning and cleaned up the house and wrapped her presents and laid them out.

This was Carissa coming and seeing her birthday spoils for the first time:

Another favorite: She loves Cars 2. Would you know that William Sonoma not only makes Star Wars pancake molds, but Cars 2 molds as well? Oh yea!

Mater Pancake + Strawberries on top = Heaven!

 And yet another Favorite: Barbie dolls and Princesses. This is a ballerina Barbie from Grandma and Grandpa Leavitt. She opened it first and was content to just play with it and forget the rest; she was that much in love with it.

 And then she got our present: Disney Princess Barbies. There are 7 of them there, people! She was happy with them too, but she still goes for that ballerina first when she pulls out the dolls. It must have the essence of grandparents to it to make it all that much cooler. She really loves them and gets excited whenever we call or video chat with them. :-)

We gave her a couple hours to play with her new toys (She also got a microphone that I have mixed feelings about... Do my children really need to be any louder??) and she watched an episode of Phineas and Ferb. (And Daddy got a few winks of sleep)

Then we went out to a burger place here called Teddy's Bigger Burgers, because she said she wanted a burger. (Yeah, I'll stick with my Fuddruckers, thank you.) 

She got chicken nuggets. 

:-)

Afterwards, we went to get frozen yogurt at one of the many frozen yogurt bars here (where she got strawberry, naturally [another favorite]), then headed back home for Daddy to go back to sleep and we were going to go to the pool...but Carissa and Hunter both fell asleep. So Lexi, Hunter and I hung out and waited for Carissa to wake up, and then headed out to the pool for a quick swim. Then we came back home and whipped up some Chicken Alfredo, woke up Daddy and had our Perry cake :-)

What a long, but fun day! 

Happy Birthday Carissa!