My 3rd Birthday Party

I had my third birthday party at Junior Gym in San Mateo. I had been to several parties here before and always loved it, especially the zip line. Almost all my friends in my preschool class came to celebrate with me. Mommy liked that it was well organized, easy to set up, and all we had to do was bring food and show up (although the party planner in Mommy always makes things more difficult than they should be). 

I've been really into dinosaurs lately, so we had dinosaur-themed favors, some decorations, and a cake with little dinosaurs all over it. After all that work, Mommy totally forgot to take pictures though, oh well!

 

Most of the party was spent running around so fast that Mommy just got a bunch of blurry photos.  

Here I am, at my own party, still doing the zipline even after the group activity started.

Totally blurry photo but the parachute was my favorite!

 

They sang Happy Birthday to me under the parachute and I just sat there frozen

The best photo that Mommy had of the cake! She originally planned to do a dinosaur-shaped pull-apart cupcake cake, but ended up with a baking disaster. So the day of the party, she ended up serving boxed cake mix cupcakes for the kids, then got a ready-made cake from Safeway and decorated with dinosaur figurines. It actually turned out pretty cute! The dinosaurs surrounded a cupcake (volcano?) which I ate. I loved it!

We ended the day opening presents at home. It was a great way to cap off my week-long birthday celebration!

Three

I am three years old! On my birthday, I went to day care where we celebrated all of the March birthdays. We had donuts for breakfast, pizza for lunch, and cupcakes. Nothing says birthday like lots of sugar and junk food!

 

Since it was a weekday, we kept it low key. I got to open one of my presents from Alex and Kieran. Mommy and Daddy got me a Strider balance bike, but they waited until the weekend to give it to me. 

We capped off the day with an ice cream cake. I had been waiting for this day when I could blow out my own candles!

South Lake Tahoe

After our first trip to Tahoe and seeing how much snow there was, Mommy realllly wanted to go back and snowboard herself. So we convinced Ma-ma and Yeh-yeh to join us in South Lake Tahoe for a quick weekend trip. This time, we went to Heavenly Mountain since it was one of the few ski resorts that had on-site childcare for Colin. They stuck me in ski school, Colin in day care, and Mommy, Daddy, Ma-ma and Yeh-yeh all got to ski together.

It was a perfect day with awesome conditions.

Mommy checked in on me and Colin at lunchtime and it seemed like we were both having a blast. Colin always seems to adapt well to "new special preschool" situations. And at the end of the day, Mommy and Daddy found me at ski school and I got to go on a few runs with them.

Looks like the lessons paid off. I loved skiing and was excited that I finally got to ride the chairlift!

It was a fun day and Mommy was happy that she finally got to snowboard after all these years.

Before our drive home, we stopped by the lakeside to enjoy the scenery.