Sara's 3rd Birthday

Finally got to give Sara her birthday dress today, after a month of it sitting in my house a surprise. She LOVED IT. After discarding several other gifts with a “yeah, whatever, boring” face and a toss of the wrist (nice to be 3 yrs. old), she opened my first of two boxes: two pairs of cute Target shorts and the little pink and purple purse I made her. She tossed the shorts and loved the purse.



Then she opened the box with the birthday dress in it and as soon as she saw it, and heard my sister tell her that “Aunt Whitt MADE this dress for you!”…she got a little happy grin and her eyes got all squinty with love and she held it up...



...then put it down, walked over to me, jumped in my lap and gave me a HUGE hug with her head on my shoulder and said “You are the best Aunt Whitt”. OMG my eyes totally teared up and I just felt so much love and appreciation! And the way she said it, it sounded like out of all the Aunt Whitts, I was the best. So cute.

Then, and this cracks me up, Spencer says randomly, “Aunt Whitt…did you hear about the toy company mom and dad and me are starting?” I said no, and he continues to tell me about how they’re going to make toys and dolls and then says, “So…do you want to knit some clothes for the dolls?” OMFG how cute that my niece and nephew totally get that I can make them things!

So Sara was against trying on the dress (of course, grumpy birthday moments) but pinkie-promised me she’d do it before I left. She kept her promise, but b/c the ribbon was tied in a bow and therefore tightened the top of the dress, she couldn’t get her second arm through. She got frustrated and annoyed and started crying and UGH, nightmare. I undid the tie, not giving up on my one chance to see her modeling it, and put it on her. My mom took a quick picture but the bow isn’t tied and Sara looks incredibly annoyed. Still…