yipee, olive is three!

 it's hard to believe our little black haired baby olive is already three!

we'd planned a little party for this evening but eleanor has been sick the last couple days

  so we cancelled it

but, i can't let a birthday pass without making it special

so she woke up to a doorway of streamers

 balloons in the kitchen and ribbons on her chair

 poor little sickie

luckily lasted throughout the day ok 

 we moved the living room decorations outside for a few pictures

 did i mention this is olive's golden birthday (three on 3rd)

so we had a gold theme 

 we didn't open the pinata today because it's huge and has way too much candy for just our kids

we'll get together with friends when everyone is healthy and do a little celebration

 she was cracking up trying to hide her smiles from me

after a breakfast of cinnamon rolls and chocolate milk 

(all decked out in cinderella gear she got for her b-day)

 we went to see despicable me 2 and out to lunch at pf changs 

then we picked up her cake and went to get her special birthday balloon filled

the same balloon that back in february i woke up and ordered

it was a 40 inch gold mylar balloon in the shape of a three

 that i bought in preparation of today

well, today was the day to use it

and just as soon as it was full of helium it slipped off the ribbon

and went straight up into the sky

such a bummer

but luckily olive was asleep and didn't see it

(noah and i might have been near tears) 

we replaced it with three heart shaped balloons before she woke up

and she never thought a thing of it

 we came home and watched cinderella (her obvious fave)

and got dressed up to play outside with friends

 then we ate mini pizzas, watermelon in the shape of 3 

and had the long awaited cinderella birthday cake 

here's a video of us singing to her

this was the last picture i took before eleanor started vomiting a bunch

which made olive (a sympathetic vomiter) throw up a little, too

it was not a perfect birthday by any means

but olive was happy and felt really special

plus, birthday season is OVER!

four kids and husband's birthday within 3 months is killer

but i love it and i'm happy to make everyone's day special

a few things about olive at age three:

she loves to do whatever her brother and sister are doing

if noah or hazel wants something, so does she

it can work to our advantage or make things difficult depending on the situation

she has a thing for rubber duckies, child-sized chairs, and cinderella

she loves her siblings

she and noah are really similar and love to wrestle and play

she loves to be just like hazel

and she adores eleanor, always either tackling or doting on her

she was a realllly busy two year old (remember this?) 

but seems to be outgrowing that

she and hazel started sharing the top bunk a little while ago

and she sleeps way better 

i think she inherited the extreme separation anxiety i had when i was little

she is a total mini version of me

she is really excited to do ballet like hazel next year

lately she makes up little songs and is really good at imaginative play

we are so grateful to have her in our family