happy birthday sarah kate!

newborn sweet sarah kate:

one year old:

two years old:

and yesterday, on july 6th, our big girl turned 3!

our photographer, emily, came over this morning for hayes's newborn session.  she also took 3yr pics of sk and took pics of her blowing out her candles and enjoying her cupcake.  i pre-ordered the dvd of our entire session so that i could have the rights to all the images and use them for hayes's announcements and such.  so i'll post better 3 year pics when that comes in!  

sarah kate is really a "little girl" now.  she's growing up and she becomes more and more animated and imaginative and hilarious by the day.  along with that comes a whole lot of drama which can be frustrating, but i also have to remember that she has alot going on in her little life right now.  she continues to be sweet to "baby hayes".  basically, i'm pretty sure the child is going to be an actress when she grows up.  it wouldn't surprise us a bit!

she has her 3 year appointment on the 16th so i'll record her stats on here after that.  

some sk-isms:

"oh my, these shoes are so gorgeous!!!" 

"this dress is just ridiculous! i wook wike a peacock!!" (with hands on hips - most of the really expressive things she says like this are scenes from her princess movies - my dad would say..."y'all are ruining her".  ha!)

"i can have a sucker?  that would be okay with you?  okay."

 "is it very complicated?"  

today she was looking at the moon and stars reflecting on hayes's nursery ceiling.  hayes's sound machine has this option on it and she hadn't played with it in a while.  anyway, she looked up at it and said, "aww moon, i have not seen you in ages!!!"  - i mean really, where does she get this stuff!?

"everybody just CALM DOWN!!!" (that comes straight from woody on toy story which she is obsessed with right now!  her aunt lauren gave her 2 and 3 for her bday!)

"where's daddy bird?? DADDY BIRD!!!  come sit in your nest!!" (trying to get trey to come sit at the dinner table with her.)

me: would you rather have pizza or papa zuzu's for dinner tonight?
sk: pizza planet!
me: trey, she wants pizza.
sk: no, NOT pizza.....pizza PLANET!!! (aka mellow mushroom).
 so that's what we had for dinner tonight=)

sarah kate was in the best mood after nap.  she was so fun, funny, agreeable, not whiny and just completely pleasant.  and it wasn't because she fell asleep during naptime and got good sleep.  and it wasn't because her quiet time just rejuvenated her.  it was because trey and i told her that if she continued to whine or to be ugly in any way that we were going to pack up all her dress up princess clothes and put them away for a while.  GASP!!!  and just like that, our sweet sarah kate was back. 

we love you to infinity and beyond, sweet sarah kate!!!  (also known to herself as, "baby bird.")  i can't believe that my baby girl is already 3!
i enjoy being your mommy more than anything in the entire world!