piper is 3!

Piper turned 3 on April 1, and we celebrated the day before with a party with her cousins. we didn't take NEARLY enough pictures during the party (or at least I didn't. i'd have to swipe brett's or my mom's cell phone to check if they have any) but here are some before/after the party pics! we can hardly believe she's 3, she's turned into such a big girl and she's going to be a great big sister in a few months! plus when i think about when she was born and brett was about to start PT school, i thought "wow, we won't be done here until piper is THREE YEARS OLD" and that seemed like forever away! and now, here we are, one 13-week clinical away from brett being done! crazy. time flies!

Practicing drawing the octonauts in advance of making the cake. this was before i believed i could make them out of clay.

clay octonauts. i am SUPER happy with how they turned out.  mainly because you can actually tell who they are (well, if you know who the octonauts are, you can)

some of our under-the-sea party decorations.

she is incapable of smiling normal when asked.

final product! piper was impressed, so i guess that's what counts haha

"enchanted musical vanity" from Auntie Heather.
it is gigantic and took brett an hour to assemble, but piper likes it. We keep it in the back room  where she can go play it whenever, but we don't have to hear it so loud.

i made her try on all her new outfits the day after her party. this one is from the mothersheads and i am obsessed with that skirt/wish it was my size.