Some more birthday backtracking...
Little Charlotte turned 3 on December 23, 2014. She will always be my favorite Christmas memory. I know that she may not always love it, but celebrating her birth right before Christmas is really special to me. It takes me back to wonderful memories, and I found having a baby at Christmas time such a beautiful experience. Her birth was the smoothest of the three, and I am filled with memories of spending Christmas day in the hospital with her.
Charlotte was excited to open birthday presents the morning of her birthday, so we figured what the heck! She climbed into our bed, along with MJ, while Cooper was still sleeping, and dug in! I just love these pictures of her opening a present from MJ and her reaction. May the always be so free with their affection for one another.
During the afternoon, mama took the poor girl to the doctor for her birthday. It was just her three year old well child check up, but with the way the timing worked out, it just happened to be on her actual birthday. MJ came along and felt like such the big brother coaxing her along and reminding her every few minutes "no shots". Charlee had a good check up and looked nice and healthy. Her 3 year stats were: Height: 38.0, 70% Weight 29.5, 35% She did fail her vision screening and we followed up shortly after with a pediatric ophthalmologist. He felt like she was very borderline as to needing glasses, so we are giving her one more year to develop and will recheck her eyes around her 4th birthday.
Being weighed at the doctor's office
This was Charlee's birthday interview. It was her first year having one, and her answers cracked me up. You can tell she's starting to really get into certain characters. It was a fun birthday and Christmas now that she is showing specific interests.
Lucky for Charlotte, her birthday being when it is also means that she will always probably be lucky enough to celebrate her birthday with family around! December 23rd is the day that mom and dad arrived in FL. They got here just in time, and met us at Adventure Landing, her birthday venue. Along with our family and Uncle Jeff, we found the perfect celebration for our little princess. Charlotte just LOVES Frozen and all things related to Elsa. Adventure Landing just happened to be having a Frozen Meet and Greet, complete with pizza dinner, on the evening of her birthday. Couldn't have been more perfect for her!
Big hugs for Elsa!
Blowing out those candles all by herself!
After meeting all the Frozen characters, eating our pizza, and indulging in cake with her brothers, uncle, Gigi and PopPop, and Mommy and Daddy, it was off to play games. Adventure Landing is like a big arcade, and we probably spent at least an hour playing lots of games. There wasn't much time to take pics of that as Cooper was on the go and I felt busy just keeping tabs on everyone! All in all, a wonderful birthday celebration which made for a very happy little girl.
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