Saturday, April 13, 2013

turning 3

happy 3rd birthday kennedie!!
kennedie celebrated her birthday multiple times this year :) as she's been lucky enough to do the last 3 years actually. 

celebration #1: the birthday party
the celebrations began the weekend before her actual birthday at a party at our house with her friends. i planned a rainbow themed party, complete with rainbow cupcakes, rainbow jello, a rainbow fruit platter & of course, rainbow decor!


 the birthday girl was also decked out in a rainbow tutu :)


the party schedule - play, lunch, cake, presents




overall - i pretty successful party! 

celebration #2: the actual day of birth
april 13 - the celebration began as soon as she woke up (hence the bed head in the picture below!) with a super special birthday breakfast - a #3 pancake with sprinkles!!


we continued to celebrate in denver at the butterfly pavilion. she loved all of the butterflies. the only disappointment was that one didn't actually land on her (thought not for lack of trying!). kennedie was also very brave & held rosie the tarantula!
 

celebration #3: florida
kennedie's birthday always falls around our spring break (or has ever since our district went to a winter break & spring break). since it's so close, she is lucky enough to get to celebrate with her nanny & poppy too - they always do something special for her. this year, it was a trip for everyone to legoland! kennedie LOVED it all - the legos, the rides, more legos :) 



 rides with daddy :) kennedie went on her first real roller coaster at lego land...first time - she loved it & wanted to go again right away. talked about it all through lunch - how fast & fun it was. round two - she was hyped to go on it again, but not so thrilled afterwards - not scared, but just wasn't as impressed - said it went too fast ;) silly girl!
 
 tuckered out after a fun day!!

 once we got back to nanny & poppy's house it was time for birthday party #2 - complete with cake, decorations (princess themed this time - b/c she's nanny & poppy's little princess) & presents!








Tuesday, April 2, 2013

it's a....

we got to find out whether a little sister or little brother will be joining our family in august this morning. kennedie seems very aware that there is a baby in mommy's tummy & we thought this would be an excellent opportunity for her to solidify that awareness & be able to see her sibling to be! 


the whole family went to my 20 week ultrasound to see the little gal/guy. everything looked good as far as development and we asked the technician to put the gender results in an envelope so we could find together as a family...kind of. when we found out with kennedie, we asked for our results in an envelope & tommy got to see first - he went into walmart & got something that would reveal the gender for me (i get to carry the little one for 9 months & he got to know the gender for about 15 minutes alone - fair trade?) so this time, daddy got the honors again & went into city market to get boy/girl colored balloons to put in a box for big sister to open to reveal who we would be expecting. 


 kennedie was pretty excited about the whole thing...especially because it involved balloons :) 
since she wanted a baby sister, it took awhile for her to get a firm grasp on the fact that she would be getting a baby brother instead - but she caught on!! we're so excited & cannot wait to meet our baby boy!!