The ONE and only Phoebe Grace

Our baby girl turned one on Thursday, February 12 and we celebrated with four days of family, friends...and baked goods! We love you, our Phoeber-Deeber-Doobers, and although we can't believe how quickly you are growing up, we are so excited to see the person that you are becoming before our eyes.

Happy Birthday to the one and only YOU!

{birthday waffle}

{birthday chair, hand painted by mommy}

{are you feeling the sisterly love?}

{not quite how i envisioned it, but it tasted good & that's what matters...right?}

{precious angel baby}

{crazy cake-eating baby}

{looking at her first (only?) edition friendly phoebe book, circa 1953}

{cake from auntie lisa}

{wow, same smile!}

{"auntie lisa, i am this many!"}

{cupcakes from nonni}

{lulu with the very glamorous angelina nanarina}

{goofing around with poppa}

{love for nonni}

Snow sisters

The punk & the diva

Peppermint tea

When I ask Lucy if she drinks coffee, she just giggles and says "no, I drink peppermint tea!" And what could be better after playing in the snow?

Lucy...up close and personal

{sorry about the crusty nose, but this is reality, folks}

I turn my back for a moment and...

{pheeber-deeber-doobers!}

{by the way, please excuse my short posts lately. i am trying to take a little break from blogs, facebook, etc. and have been someone successful at it! i pre-scheduled a bunch of short blog posts until mid-february, though this one i am just adding today because i couldn't resist.}

Lucy's not the only costume fan in the house!

We are very dramatic

L Cubed

Check out my Lovely Little Ladies...

She be three

{our beautiful birthday princess}

We celebrated Lucy's third birthday in grand style this week. On her actual birthday on Monday, we had a sushi lunch at home. I considered this to be "big girl" food and thought she'd have fun with it. She ended up picking it apart a bit (Laura: think Borough of Sugar Notch) but it was a good first attempt.


After lunch, we made brownies (from a mix) with buttercream frosting (from scratch). We ate them after a very fancy pasta dinner (Lucy's request) and we all agreed they were delicious -- though Lucy mostly just licked the frosting off the brownie, leaving a poor bare brownie underneath (Laura: think Alex, Cheeto).

{yummy!}

On Wednesday, we had a little "kiddie" party at home. A few of Lucy's friends came over and together we destroyed one perfectly good Tinkerbell cake. Literally, we ate ALL the frosting off of it. What the heck, it was her birthday and she could eat frosting if she wanted to. And so could I.

{tinks, as we call her around here}

{the party favors...I painted little boxes for the kids with their initials on them and 44 cents inside each one in celebration of the new mr. president}

{lu loved her new party dress, which she deemed "perfect"}

{perfect for twirling!}

{henry & katie}

{the kids helped me pick out lucy's three candles}

{so hard to wait for cake!}

{making her wish...i wonder what it is?}

We also spent a fabulous weekend in NYC to kick off the birthday festivities...I will post about that soon!

O2B3

Specifically, oh to be LUCY and be three! Happy Birthday to our spirited, creative, smart, dramatic, amazing and beautiful girl!

Winter Games

{she asked her nonno to do this and she sat there like a buddha for a good long while...crazy child of mine}