Noelle's Birthday and Halloween 2011

First I love that Noelle's birthday is around Halloween. It will make for some very fun future birthday parties and events. Second I don't think I will ever throw a three year old birthday party and invite kids to it again. Unless maybe there were only three of them. But there were eleven. Quite the event. And not super fun in a little apartment. But I think the kids had fun and I know Noelle did, so that's all that matters right? Plus they got to all dress up in their Halloween costumes. See what I mean by some very fun future parties? Anyway. We did the party the day before her birthday and then Thursday the 27th was the big day. I can't believe I have a 3 year old. It was a very fun day and she totally understood that it was her day. She got some very fun things as well. Here are some things that she is doing now:

She talks and talks and talks.
She asks a lot of questions.
She helps a lot with her baby brother and is very sweet with him.
She also whacked him in the head the other day for no reason.
She's getting quite the imagination.
She still has a sweet personality but she is showing lots of her attitude.
She pushes other kids sometimes. I'm trying to have patience with that. I HATE when she does it and she knows it. Maybe that's one of the reason's she does it so much.
She loves to hold hands with friends.
She is much more outgoing.
She still loves the outdoors.
She'll wipe away my tears if I am crying.
She still isn't potty trained.
She is very sensitive and moody sometimes. Poor daddy has to deal with two sensitive women now.
She loves Tangled.
She loves to dance and sing.
She is still taking one nap a day. But I think that is going to end soon.
And she is still one of the lights of my life, even when I get frustrated and could scream at times.

So we had a very fun Halloween. Noelle LOVED it this year. She really understood trick-or treating and had a blast doing it. We go to my parent's neighborhood. We also enjoyed my mom's delicious cheese soup in bread bowls-it's a tradition ever since I can remember. And we very much missed everyone who wasn't there (Tanner, Nina, Eric, and Alyson). Noelle was Jessie from Toy Story and Michael was a frog. Some people called him Kermit.

Enjoy some photos!

She wanted pancakes for her birthday breakfast and she devoured them.

Thanks to my friend I had a princess castle cake mold that I used for her birthday cake. With such a busy week I needed something simple but also cute. I really like how it turned out.

She has been asking for scissors for her birthday and she got them. So she gave them a hug.Princess pjs

Cute girl in her Halloween shirt

She LOVED the makeup I put on her to be Jessie. I used liquid blush, brown eye liner (for the freckles) and lip gloss.
With Aunt Taylor, the witch
our cute Jessie. Don't you love the pumpkins? Taylor has an obsession with U2 and Bono. Top: U2. Middle: Bono with sunglasses. Bottom: Bono(heart)
p.s. My mom made her awesome chaps.darling cowgirl. Some people thought she was a cowboy.

My cute little froggy. He slept the whole time in the stroller while we trick-or-treated with Noelle.

smiley Michael in his pjs
Silly Noelle in her pjs