Sweet Sofia turns 3!! Happy Birthday!

This darling, loving, sarcastic, funny, dramatic, sugary-sweet little girl turned 3 yesterday!  Happy Birthday Sofia!  You are one of the best things that has ever happened in my life.  You, and your brother.  You had a wonderful birthday yesterday and it was full of celebrations that started with your family and Auntie Madison in the morning at home and was followed by celebrations with your church family in the afternoon.  You were shy about accepting all of the attention and well wishes from everyone, but you enjoyed it as well and loved the celebratory atmosphere.  It was great!

Here are some pictures from your special day.

Here's the heart-shaped cake that Madison and I made for you.

Here's you with Jakub.  He wanted to help you blow the candles out. :)

 Family cake and lunch, and brother being silly as usual. :)

 Jakub made you a birthday card and he was so proud of it. :)

The new dress that Madison gave you.  So beautiful! And you wore it to church.

Your new "Frozen" princess Elsa dress.  You love it more than anything else I think.  :)  You ran around in it all afternoon.  When you and brother are sweet to each other and having fun together it's one of the best things.  It makes for a happy and peaceful home. :)  

 The new "My Family" playhouse you got from me and Daddy.

Happy Birthday sweet Sofia!  May you always be so sweet and tender-hearted.  May you always want to be where the people are, laughing and singing and dancing, and telling stories full of imagination and adventure.  You have a creative and lively spirit and I pray that continues.  We love you to the moon and back 1 million times. :)

Today, on Monday, you are off to pre-school for your first full day there.  You were excited this morning, and ready, and not afraid at all.  You wore your back pack there like a big girl, with your pajamas inside for your first nap time at school.  You're looking forward to it because your class naps in your brother's classroom, usually.  And you are both looking forward to seeing each other after lunch.  I'm proud of you both for looking out for each other and I hope it continues at school. :)  And I hope you always love school as much as you do now- looking forward to being with friends, to learning, to helping the teacher and wanting to learn from her.  You are even starting to speak Czech quickly now and are not as shy about it as before.  That's great!

And I can't forget to mention that as you have turned 3 now you have begun sleeping in a big-girl bed on the bottom of the bunk bed.  Brother moved to the top and Daddy took your baby bed away this weekend.  You were nervous about it at first, and didn't go to sleep the first night until 11pm.  You were happy, but nervous and excited, and couldn't stop talking and exploring in your new bed. :)  But you also woke up dry from your nightly pull-up on your very first morning and were extremely proud of yourself.  Things change so quickly. :)

We love you Sofia and look forward to hopefully many more happy and blessed years together as a family!!