Princess Sweetpea's Birthdaypalooza Celebracione!

Four years and four days ago,
our miracle baby was born!

This long awaited princess


is such a delight in our lives


with her love of snuggling and sweet affectionate nature,


her zany sense of humor,


and how she brings fun and sunshine into everything she does!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SWEETPEA!

WE ARE CRAZY ABOUT YOU!


In this picture she is dancing all over the beach singing,

"I'm not nakeeeee any moooooore!"..

because three minutes earlier she was dancing all over the beach
singing

naked.

See what I mean? She brings the fun!

Smelly Good

I love being a mother.

Sweetpea, "Mama-mama-mama, come smell this.
It smells beauuuutiful,
like princess baby powder lilac whipped cream perfume!
It's your bathroom smelly-good spray that I put on my pillow.
Oops! No, don't sniff over there.

That's why I needed the smelly-good...

'Cause it's actually my barf from yesterday."



Awesome.

(P.S. - I actually use Thymes Eucalyptus. You can get it here. And, it does smell beauuuuutiful!)

Friday Funny

Sweetpea's 3 1/2 year old prayer,

"Dear God,
I love You.

Since You are the King, and I am a princess,
will You please give me

a million sparkling jewels?

I don't have any at all right now.
Thanks.
I love You again.
Amen."

Cupcake, "Dat's a good idea, Sweetpea! Dat would totally WOCK!"

"See what kind of love the Father has given to us,
that we should be called
children of God;
and so we are." ~1 John 3:1a

Sweetpea Found the Scissors

This is one very, very bad toddler haircut!

Sweetpea cut the top to about 3 inches, the sides to about 1 inch, a small patch in the back to about 1 inch, and the very front to 1/4 inch!

And, now we've got seriously homely blackmail photos
for her teenage years!



I've never been a big fan of "The Mullet" and definitely not on my little princess!



The worst part is the very front where she cut "bangs"!



Bye bye curls! That's one very disturbed face in the mirror.



I ended up cutting the back about the same length as the sides and evening it out. I layered the top a little where she chopped the crown to about 3 inches.

The very front I just left alone because there's not really anything to be done but just let it grow out.


As I was cutting her hair, she looked into the mirror and said,
"Well, little lady,
I certainly hope you've learned a valuable lesson today.
Are you ever going to do that again?
Ummm, no-sirree-bob!
Got it?
Check!"


The finished 'do turned out pretty cute.



And, the truth is, when you've got a sparkling personality
and a crazy-funny sense of humor like Sweetpea does...



you can pretty much pull off whatever 'do you want!