Hope is Three

Hope Mia was born on Friday, July 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM. I remember her Dad saying that if she could just wait a little bit longer she'd be a July 4th baby. Mom wasn't amused.

the Mother Goose poem says

Fridays child is loving and giving

Hope celebrated her birthday this past Saturday. First with a "kids only" party at a small amusement park. Later that day family and friends came by for BBQ and cake.

Hope couldn't decide between Toy Story and Rapunzel as a theme so she got both.

Cars is another favorite. Tita Geli and Nana combined forces to get lots of Car stuff

Surrounded by adults Hope searches her gift bags for toys while they admire the clothes.

Mom brought out the cake and Hope supervised the cutting so that she could be sure to "get all of Rapunzel's face on my piece"

In between gift opening and cake cutting there was lots and lots of fun

Taking care of her new pup with her new vet kit
Aunt Denise lends a hand. Denise has been a family friend since she was a teen.

Pup is all better and takes a ride on Mater the bubble maker
It was about 9 PM at this point and the birthday girl had been awake since 7 AM

Three is a good age

Hope's Holiday

So I'm still battling this bug. I can't decide if I'm still sick or sick again - I vaguely remember feeling sorta OK a day or two here and there. Then again my head is so stuffed that I'm not sure if I've had a clear thought since Christmas.

What else is new.

I thought I'd share some photos from Christmas ...

As we headed off to Brooklyn I asked Hope what the traffic would be like.

At my brother's house she tried on her new coat. She'll be appearing as Huggy Bear The Pimp in the Nick Jr. remake of Starsky and Hutch.

Daddy is explaining the fine art of wind-up toys.

She loves her Elmo phone.

Christmas morning concert.

I think she looks happy. She's responding to a call on her Winnie The Pooh fire engine.

Hope changed so she could respond to calls in fancier neighborhoods.

Two of our favorite people - Elmo and Anngelica. Anngelica is engaged to my DIL's brother. She is usually called Geli but on Christmas Day, in an attempt to say Aunt Anngelica, she has now been dubbed AnnaGelica. AnnaGelica is an actress. She has been on Broadway and has appeared in the lead roles of several road companies. This spring she'll be in Miss Saigon in Philadelphia.

AnnaGelica knows how to have fun.



Washing our hands demo with the aid of the talking kitchen.

So that's a bit of Christmas with Hope. I'm going to try and visit everyone over the weekend.

Peace.