Sarah's Birthday Party (part 2)

It seems that Sarah has grown up so much in the past month. She turned three, dropped her nap (ugh!) and is eating more grown up foods like salad, uncooked carrots, pickles, and even lemons (yikes!). It is interesting how fast they really do change. Chris and I just opened up the video vault of the video montages Amy created for us on Sarah's 1st, 2nd, and now 3rd birthday and it is amazing how much they change without you noticing on a day to day basis (yes, I teared up a little). We had already had the huge kiddy style gymnastics party on the 13th, but we wanted to celebrate her true birthday by treating her to one of her favorite restaurants, Darlin' Jeans Apple Cobbler Cafe in Midway. She calls it "the pizza place" (for obvious reasons when trying to remember the name). We love to go there because we do not have to worry about her fussing and not eating once the food is on the table and she loves going there because she stuffs herself on her favorite food in the world, pizza! Here are a few photos and videos of the event. Chris's sister, Amy and mom, JoAnn were able to join us on this night. We love the atmosphere at this location. It is very much a Mom and Pop restaurant and they have live music on the weekends (which Sarah loves). She claps for him after each song when her hands are not covered in pizza sauce. Amy surprised us all with one of the most beautiful birthday cakes I have ever seen! She went to Kroger and asked for a Madagascar cake and boy did she get one! This puts the Sam's club cake from the gymnastics party to shame.

We were lucky to get a front seat in the restaurant. We were front and center for the live music. When the musician noticed it was Sarah's birthday, he asked if he could play her the birthday song. Of course we didn't mind! Here is the video of the song.

One of Sarah's favorite gifts of her birthday came from Aunt Amy. She got her a real accoustic child size guitar (with Tinkerbell on the front to boot). She liked "playing" along with the musician. It was so cute! I told Chris I will have to break this out when she wins her first grammy. What a great third birthday. As I say so often, she is growing up so fast!