Our Hannah Elizabeth Watts turned 3 on Valentine's Day!! This year has been extra fun because she has been soooo excited about her birthday coming up. Before this year she didn't really "get" that it was her birthday. But this year, for weeks before her birthday, if you asked her who had a birthday coming up she would raise her hands, jump up and down and say "ME...ME!!" Ha!
She was also so excited about her birthday party. She changed daily what kind of party she wanted. One day it would be Rapunzel, the next Frozen, the next Ariel. I didn't ever let it worry me though because I knew she really didn't care. She was just excited about all the festivities. So was I!
On Friday, the day before her birthday and birthday party, Hannah and Claire started coughing. Not much at first, but as the day progressed it became deeper and more often. Ugh. They both stayed totally well all during the month of January and first part of February when Emily, Bert and I were all sick. Hannah hadn't been sick in so long and she got sick the day before her birthday. Anyway, we decided that we would still have the party since both sets of grandparents and Uncle Stan were coming into town, but we did let her friends know not to come because she was sick.
After an early morning Saturday trip to the doctor for Hannah and Claire we came back to the house to celebrate our girl!!
Hannah opening up presents.
Her sisters were big helpers.
For weeks Emily has been gathering up things around the house or making things at home or school and putting them in a certain cabinet in the office to give to Hannah on her birthday. She has been sooooo excited about her gifts to Hannah. The day before her birthday she told me she needed to wrap her gifts. We decided to put everything in this big bag. She had made about 6 cards and she gave her several of her crafts from school and two different pairs of shoes she had outgrown. Ha! Because Emily was SO excited about giving them to Hannah, I didn't have the heart to tell her that Hannah was going to get those shoes anyway. When Hannah opened the shoes she got SO excited and said "Emily....these are like YOUR shoes!!!!" Haha!:)
Claire loved the paper. She had a handful of paper in each hand for most of the morning. She also took turned the corner on that day in her walking ability. She used to walk several steps if coaxed, but starting on the day of the party she was choosing to walk a lot more. You could almost see her balance improving as the day went on. She still takes many many falls, but now that she's decided this walking thing isn't so bad she'll be walking all over this house in no time.
When we first realized Hannah's friends weren't going to be able to come to her party I thought about not buying a pinata, but then I changed my mind. I wanted this family party to be super special for her...I wanted my girl to feel SO loved even though she wasn't feeling 100%.
Bert bravely agreed to hold the pinata while the girls took swings at it. Hannah kept accidentally hitting him and had us all cracking up.
Emily was hitting the pinata but also had us cracking up because she was swinging so hard. She had some force behind it!
Then we decided we'd put it down on the ground to see if that made it a little easier for the girls.
When it was Emily's turn she said very excitedly " I have an idea!!!" Then she took the stick and started trying to stab it into the poor pony. Unfortunately for Emily this was a very well made pinata.
So Bert and Stan decided to finish it off.
I do believe they enjoyed the task.
The birthday spread. Huge thank you to my friend Kayce for making the amazing and beautiful cupcakes. I'm so thankful to have such talented friends!!:)
They were waiting patiently on their cupcakes.
Family picture with our birthday girl!
Hannah blew the candles out just as we started the Happy Birthday song. She was ready to dig into that cupcake!:)
Claire figured out who would give her food and stayed right beside Pawpaw the entire time everyone was eating. She looooved the blueberries. She hasn't had them before because they have been so expensive during the winter months, but we're looking forward to the summer when they are cheaper so that we can have them more often....all three of our girls love blueberries!
The birthday girl wearing her new dress and pulling her new suitcase. She pulls it all over the house and tells us where she's going.
We also played "try to knock the cups down" (at least, that's what we call it!). This is what you call a cheap but fun game!
We tried to get Claire to take a turn but she just wanted to carry the ball around.
My brother Stanley drove up from Atlanta on Saturday morning just to come to Hannah's party. We were so glad he could make it! The girls LOVE their Uncle Stan!
I thought this was such a great picture of my parents and Hannah!!
Mimi and Papa with the Watts girls!
Grandmama and Pawpaw with the birthday girl!
Grandmama and Pawpaw got up very early to drive up to Greenville. They had to get back down to Jackson that night so they had a lot of driving that day (about 6 hours round trip), but they wouldn't have missed Hannah's party.
Happy, happy birthday to our beautiful, fun-loving, absolutely precious Hannah Beth! We had so much fun celebrating YOU!!!
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