Katherine is 3!

Katherine just turned 3 on March 13. She could not stop talking about her birthday in the few days before. She was very excited about it and it was on her mind because Samantha had just had hers.

We let her choose what she wanted for dinner and she chose pizza – decision helped by daddy I think. :) Although, it wasn’t a hard decision for her. She LOVES cheese pizza.

I was planning on making her a butterfly cake but she decided she wanted chocolate birthday cupcakes with chocolate frosting instead. I happily obliged because 1. they’re chocolate! 2. they aren’t as much work and 3. they’re chocolate!

I think they turned out cute. I call them hot-chocolate cupcakes because of the mini-marshmallow on top (and in hindsight I am wondering what the frosting would be like if I’d used hot chocolate powder for the cocoa, hmmm). I put one on each cupcake because Katherine is our mini-marshmallow fiend. She is always searching the cupboard for them.

We sang “Happy Birthday” and she blew out the candles.

She opened presents.

She got clothes and was very excited about it,

A book and flashlight from grandpa. Gabby was, of course, more delighted by the book having checked it out from the library recently. It is “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein. It is a 25th anniversary edition with a CD of the author reading his poems. The Shel Silverstein books were some of my favorites as a kid Gabby’s age.

She also got a Leap Frog Click-Start game console. This has a console that plugs into the television and a little keyboard and mouse like a real computer has. She is really enjoying it as she gets better at using it.

And a cute little dress for Spring. I love the vintage print and she likes the flowers all over it. She was very cute in it on Sunday.

We ate cupcakes and ice-cream

While Joseph looked on wondering where his was.

She was quite a happy little Katherine! And she sure enjoyed those chocolate cupcakes.

Bliss!!