~* Happy Birthday Alexandra !! *~

Our baby turned 3 today!!

Happy Birthday Alex!!

At 3, you....

• can count to 20 - albeit missing a few teen numbers!
• can sing your ABC's
• can spell your name
• can write a few letters - A L E X
• will spend hours just drawing and colouring
• can draw faces and shapes
• know all your shapes
• LOVE dance lessons
• LOVE to sing
• emulate your big sister
  
• are looking forward to being a big sister
• have your Daddy wrapped around your little finger :)
• still twirl your hair
• are so independant at times
• can swim all by yourself with no floaties
• smother us all in kisses all day long
• bring a smile to everyone's face
• make us SO happy :)

Alex had her party on the weekend and we decided to hold it at Playdays. We normally do home parties but it was just all too hard this time and being pregnant I didn't fancy having to clean the house twice in one day and do all the work associated with a home party. So the playcentre was fantastic and nice to kick back and let the kids tire themselves out without feeling that way ourselves.


We still had a small theme and Alex chose Penguins (Happy Feet). She is crazy about anything penguin at the moment. Here is her invite:


I also made her a penguin cake which she just loved! She wanted to skip all the normal food and play and cut straight to the cake - that's my girl!!


You can see more pictures from her party HERE.

Now an update....

Alex started dance lessons about 5 weeks ago. Bella's teacher said she could join in prior to turning 3 as she felt she was 'ready'. After spending the last 1.5 years watching her sister she was busting to start lessons. She settled in perfectly and really loves it. We had open night this week and I was so surprised to see that she already knows the entire tap routine almost by heart! I was so proud. Isabella loves having her in the same class too.



All signs of our 'baby' have gone!!! Alex has been night trained for about 3 months now which is great. I was really worried that it would take a while as she is such a heavy, solid sleeper but after a handful of accidents over a week or two she mastered it. After the coin incident she was a bit worried about poo'ing again and was reluctant to go. But we got through it... again!!!

We have so much fun together during the day. Even though she misses Isabella while she is at school it nice to be able to spend good quality time with Alex. We often just go shopping and have a 'chino' together. We sit and chat and have lots of laughs. Otherwise, just playdates or stuff at home. Her swimming is going great! She just moved up to the next level in the 'big pool' so that is exciting.

Today Alex had an audition for a Pura Milk TV commercial. She did well in the audition but I have learnt not to get too excited when it comes to these things as they audition a lot of kids. Will find out in the next day or two.

Here are some pictures of our angel celebrating her big day. As you can see she absolutely loves her Baby Alive doll. She has been asking for one for months and hasn't let it go since she opened it.



This is Alexandra's page of A's. She did this about 6 weeks ago and can now do her full name :)