kalia is 3 years old!

birthday morning opening presents

birthday beach day - mala

i'm 3 years old!

showing sydney her 3 fingers

papa and uncle kirk

snack time with sydney

family photo - it's hard to get 5 people to cooperate for a photo!

someone is always looking away

papa and daddy

we're in the hole uncle greg dug kalia

bbq dinner at home

tinkerbell cake

did somebody say cake?

kalia at the end of the night, about to fall over!

Kalia had quite a birthday! We were all awake (me, daddy, papa and maya) waiting for kalia to wake up! We let her wake up and watch one of her shows and have some milk. She finally saw her presents we had waiting for her with a happy birthday banner. Then she opened her presents - very slowly. Of course, when she opened the puzzle from auntie lo and uncle vere, she wanted to stop and put it together. We got her a dollhouse that came with a mommy, daddy and baby. We also got her the big sister and her big girl bed and the baby's furniture. She has been playing non-stop with it. She even slept with the big sister and mommy last night. She has been playing for hours by herself, with ongoing dialogue between the family. I think it's funny because the daddy has been at the computer a lot in the dollhouse and so had kalia's daddy (checking his stocks).

After a breakfast of banana pancakes in the shape of a pig, kalia played with her new things and ran fast in her new tinkerbell slippers. Then we headed off to baby beach - mala side for a birthday day at the beach. Kalia had so much fun in the water, being pulled on her boogie board, riding on daddy's surfboard, playing in the giant hole that uncle greg dug for her and playing with sydney. We were there for 4 hours! Maya had a lot of water time too and really liked it.

Then we came home for more play time with the dollhouse. We bbq'd and sydney and kirk came over. Sydney and Kalia played outside with her squiggle ball. Kalia had such a great time playing with Sydney. We had dinner and then had her tinkerbell cake. Kalia was so exhausted, her eyes were all red, but she just kept going- she was having too much fun playing, being thrown up in the air by uncle greg and running around. It was a great birthday!