Happy Birthday Annie!

I can't even believe my baby turns three years old today. It's gone by so (too) quickly. Sometimes I think, "She's still such a baby, I can't believe she's three." Then other times it's like, "She's practically a little grown up now, why isn't she in Kindergarten yet?"

Here's some pictures of her on various May 19ths:

2006 -- She's an awfully beat-up-lookin'-baby :-) The first picture is the first one ever taken of her . . . the next two are in the nursery.





2007: My Baby is One! I was actually shocked looking at these pictures how much curl she had . . . I didn't remember this much curly hair, and when I'd been looking at pictures recently, I hadn't seen pictures of the back of her hair. It makes Ellie's seem bone straight in comparison! From the front their hair isn't that much different . . . Annie's is just a bit longer and thicker, and has more 'flip'. But from the back, I was so surprised to see that Annie had a full little head of curls!





2008: Second Birthday. Her birthday party was actually the next day, and I was giving birth to Ellie, so I don't actually have more pictures. This was at night, right before bedtime, when Greg and Uncle Cody were putting together her train set. Ellie was due two weeks later, but about an hour after we took these pictures my water broke, and all I could think was, "NO! They can't have the same birthday!" Luckily, labor didn't start for a while, and I had Ellie the next morning.





2009: Third Birthday! These are from like 3 minutes ago . . . Annie finally woke up (at 8:40! That's like a full hour and a half later than normal. And the shocker is, Ellie just woke up too (and she usually wakes up even before Annie). It's like it was my birthday! I took some pictures of the sleepyhead waking up. Wow, she's so grown up now! She looks like a kid, not a toddler anymore. The good news is she informed us last night it's time to be potty trained, "Because I am going to be three now. A big girl."