Happy 3rd Birthday to Alyson

Alyson is 3 years old today. Time sure is flying. She is turning into such a big girl.

Things about Alyson:

She loves the colors brown and pink.
She loves to ride her bike.
She ask "why, mom why?" all...day... long....
She likes to point out the letters in her name. "there's an o, like my name. there's an s. look mom an a" and so on. And she does this everywhere. A trip to the grocery store is very long.
She gets kicked out of story time for beating up the boys......a-lot.
She knows tons of words- just doesn't speak them clearly. We are working on that. I still think she specks Chinese on the side. She speaks in sentences, but again, not 100% clearly. It worries me sometimes, but she's smart enough to be sassy, so maybe she'll be all right.
She is a sweet girl and still loves her daddy. She's also started calling me mawddy- a combination of momdaddy. Apparently I can't even be called mom anymore...it's got to be momdaddy.
We are working on being potty trained. She's still not too into it. I told her she needed to learn to use the potty like all her big cousins and so she can go to preschool. to which she replied "memaw can teach me preschool. her change my diaper."
She loves to jump and whenever she is excited she jumps up and down and says "oh yes, let's do that!"
She still takes an afternoon nap and that makes me happy.
She loves to bake - chocolate chip cookies are her favorites.
She can be so grown up about things, but then seem so little too. She is very stubborn and likes her way.
She reminds us to read scriptures every night and always wants "a big kiss, a big hug and a big good night"

And we love her!

When Ally woke up, we sang "happy birthday" to her in bed and then brought her to the table for breakfast. For a special birthday treat, I made her cinnamon rolls. Daddy went into work late so he could have a birthday breakfast with Ally.

We invited a few friends over to eat birthday cake with us. Ally greeted them at the door with " did you come for my birthday party? You are so cute"
Running around chasing balloons and having a good time.

Ally wanted "memaw's happy birthday cake" so I got the recipe from my mom, figured out how to change it so it would come out right with the altitude change and thankfully the cake did fine and didn't fall. We decorated with candy flowers, because Ally found them at the store and said "oh mom, these are just so cute" (everything is so cute- these days)

We went to the store for her to pick out birthday balloons. She chose pink of course. The light pink said "happy 3rd birthday" and the hot pink just said "happy birthday" She came home and wanted them tied to the computer chair- or as she claimed it for the day and called it her birthday chair.




On birthdays, the tradition is to call and give a birthday wish, Ally got lots of phone calls. She would run to her self proclaimed "birthday chair" and talk to them on the phone in her birthday chair. When the caller would tell her "happy birthday", she would say " happy birthday to you too" It was funny.