Annika's Birthday

Even though I now know how to post really big pictures, I think I'll save it for pictures that I think are really great photography, not really cute kid pictures and milestones.Annika asked for a pink puppy cake. Did I deliver? It was really stretching my mommy talents.
Here's the whole crew, as usual, not all for us are looking at the camera or smiling, but we can't just stand around taking pictures all day when there are candles to blow out (subsequently magically turning 3), and cake to eat and presents to open and goody bags to enjoy, can we?

Today while we were waiting at Adriana's bus stop, Dallin reaches his little arm as high up as he could and stood on his tip-toes thrusting a leaf in my lofty direction and said, "Lea!" Which means, "Mom look, I found a leaf for you isn't it great?" So, I enthusiastically replied, "Thanks, Dallin." To which Annika emphatically (how she usually expresses herself) says in her cute new-found know-it-all three-year-old voice, "Mom, leavvvis awe not bootiful!" (Mom leaves are not beautiful, don't you know?) Then Ariel explained in her patient big sister voice that in the fall leaves change into all different colors and they can be beautiful, (Don't you know?).