Happy Birthday-part 1

Papa and Dede and Mammaw and Grandaddy came to town to help Kellyn celebrate her 3rd birthday. Kellyn's first play victim was Papa. They went shopping. Kellyn is pushing the babies and Papa is holding the purse which he so carefully hid from the camera! He even wore jewelry that Kellyn provided :-)

Mammaw let Kellyn open her birthday present a day early. Missing in all these pictures is the hot pink Mustang Kellyn received from her grandparents and Mommy and Daddy. We ordered it early so she could spend most of the summer driving it. That plan didn't work. She doesn't like it! She is terrified of the thing!

More cars! She LOVES the Car movie and has almost every character in the movie. She wanted a Cars birthday party but I sort of talked her into a Princess party :-)

Thanking sweet Mammaw for her birthday gift. She got colors, markers, paper and coloring books. Perfect for our little artist!

Kellyn (I'm sure) trying to talk Grandaddy into wearing some of her jewelry!

Kellyn playing Dr. with Mammaw. I think Mammaw was just perfect...and she really is! She will drop anything and everything to play with Kellyn. Mammaw let Kellyn boss her around the entire visit.

Her actual birthay..Sunday, August 22. I can't believe my little peanut is now 3! It's so exciting and so depressing at the same time. She is SO much fun and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect little angel! I could honestly write a novel here, however, it has taken me 2 months to post on the blog so I better keep moving. :-)

Little squinkies from Papa and Dede. They are the tiniest little critters and so cute! Last night we had a squinkie parade on her t.v. stand. Polly Pocket even came over and watched :-)

My daughters turning into quite the little entertainer these days. It was only fitting that Daddy and I get her a new microphone for all her concerts!

Time for a fast photoshoot before we head to Kellyn's bday party.

Kellyn with Papa and Dede.

Kellyn with Mammaw and Grandaddy

Kellyn with Mommy and Daddy

My silly little turkey! Oh how I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gymnastics Trial

Get Ready..................................

To fly like Tinkerbell!!!

We tried out a night of gymnastics last week and Kellyn really loved it! She didn't like waiting her turn but she loved walking on the balance beam and doing forward rolls. It was so fun to watch her get so excited about everything. Not sure if we'll continue at the gym. We are going to try a few before we make a permanent decision.

Singing her little heart out

Kellyn's version of Round and Round by Selena Gomez.

Trip to the Zoo

I think the sun was in her eyes...LOL!

Kellyn was extremely impressed with the giant turtle.

Kellyn watched a little boy sit on the steps and pout. So Kellyn had to mimic him.

Peeking through to see all the "Marty's" aka...Zebras.

The absolute best part of the zoo was the carousel. She giggled and waved and giggled and waved. It was hilarious.

She loved the petting zoo and thought all the goats and sheep were just so cute.

Her favorite little animal was the pony. She is obsessed with horses. She really wanted to pet him but he didn't want to stop eating.

Had to take pictures of my favorite animals!

This alligator was huge! I couldn't believe it was out of the water. It was about 13-15 feet long. Kellyn was impressed with his size.

I was told to take a picture of this kangaroo. Kellyn is the boss of me. hahaha

I tried so hard to get a decent picture of her while we were at the zoo. This is the best shot. Little turkey will not cooperate!

A few random photos

Daddy returning from his fishing tournament. He was gone for 3 days. Kellyn was SUPER excited that he was home.

My silly little girl wearing Daddy's hat.

Kellyn was hiding from me....so she thought. LOL! She cracks me up. She hides right out in the open!

This picture was taken by one of Kellyn's teachers as part of my Mothers Day gift. I just love it and had to share.

She has been in the Explorer classroom for almost a year. The teachers took weekly pictures and posted them on a website for all the parents to view. I just loved being able to see Kellyn and her friends in action. Kellyn moved up to a new class today because she is completely potty trained. I am SO proud of her but super sad because this class doesn't post pictures on a website :-(

Haircut...finally! She was WAY overdue!

We are trying so hard to grow her bangs out the same length of her hair. It's taking forever! I wish I would have never cut them in the first place!

Kellyn's pose. She was so proud she had thought of this all on her own.

Mom...take one like this. I no longer get to pose my child. She makes all the posing decisions.

Impromptu photo shoot..taken over by Kellyn

Kellyn....stand right there and let me take your picture. I was trying to get a picture before she put her non-matching flip flops on. She won. Then she ran into the kitchen to tell me to take her picture in there. So I followed.

Wait Mom! I have to go get something.

Let me put this blanket over this chair. (can't I just take your picture without all this Kellyn?)

Ok...I'm gonna sit down and you can take my picture.

Oops the blanket slid down. Hold on Mom, let me fix this.

I did it!!! Look Mom! The blanket is staying!

All ready! CHEEEESSSSEEEE!!!! I just wanted to take a few cute pics of her and it took 30 minutes after Kellyn took over!