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It’s farm animal week in Daphne’s class, and today was pig tail day.

(Daphne’s teacher is awesome!)

Daphne’s having fun today!

She changed her whole outfit, and then got stuck in her toy box.  I’ve been called in more than once to help her get out, and back into bed…

We’ve been trying for a week to get this uploaded, and haven’t been able to.

Daphne’s Aunt Mel made a great birthday video for the new three-year-old. You can access it here.

Melissa writes:

people might want to “save as” and view from their computer if they have a slow connection and the video suddenly stops mid stream.

Daphne had a great birthday weekend.  Here is her new dress & hat from Aunt Penny and Uncle Dave, from the HuxleyWuxley line (homemade by Penny).  It is gorgeous!  She opened this present and had to put it on immediately.

Aunt Cheri gave Daphne a card with a musical envelope- Daphne loves it!  She opens and closes the little flap to hear the music over and over again.

Bebe came by with a big bouquet of love!!  The balloons are attached to her dining room chair, haven’t drooped yet!

On Daphne’s birthday, we had a pizza party with our family and friends. Even Grandma, Grannie and Grampy (and two of their friends!) came to the party. The girls are on videochat with them for a fiber optic rendition of Happy Birthday!

On Saturday morning, Daphne had a part with some of her friends from school.  They were a hoot!  Three year olds are a lot of fun to entertain.

Ethan made his famous Spaghetti Monsters for the Red Party.  They also had watermelon, red grapes, strawberry milk, and red velvet cupcakes.

It is good to have Amelia around to read a book when everyone gets tired of bouncing.  She was a great big sister.

Six more days till this kid is three. 

Daphne made the red cake art on Tuesday with her occupational therapist, for their last visit (they end at age 3).  She carries it around the house every night, and shows it to everyone.   If she can’t find it, she asks us “Where’s my cake?”   Then yesterday, her class August newsletter came home with her birthday listed for this month.  I showed it to her and she was soooo excited!  She spent a good bit of last night walking around with both papers and talking about her birthday.

This morning she told me she picked out the “D” and “A” magnets herself, too!  And her favorite “O”, and the almost-the-same “G”.

This picture is a few weeks old, from Daphne’s classmate’s birthday party. But I just love the photo.

Bebe bough the girls matching twirling dresses, which they tried out Saturday.

A few weeks ago, I ran across this article on BoingBoing…

DrO says: “I wanted to point out to you that some people on LiveJournal came up with an idea of inserting dry spaghetti into hot dogs, then boiling it, and coming out with amusing culinary constructs that kids seem to love.”

I found the pictures really strange and almost unsettling, but had a hunch that at least one of my girls would like this strange food.

Told Allison about it and she was skeptical, but made them last weekend. And they liked it even better than I anticipated, especially Amelia. I called them “spaghetti monsters”.

Ready to cook.

Ready to serve.

Nom nom nom.

Big hit!

Daph was more interested in sweet corn.