This is what greeted us the morning of Miss Kaia’s birthday

What a little doll!

Then it was off to swimming lessons. She was doing really good floating by herself.

I just had to put this one in. She looks terrified! She’s more looking at me like “mom, how could you do this to me?” She really didn’t like it, but could do this:

Float all the way by herself, so I told her to get over it.

When we got home she got a bath and some new bath toys. Then we opened her presents

Ripping open her presents

She loves books lately

Talking on her new phone

It was the members only opening day for the new dinosaur exhibit at the Denver Science Museum. They had Sue, the most complete (and maybe largest) T-Rex skeleton ever found. Plus a few different robot dinosaurs that were really cool, and lots of dino info. We couldn’t take any pictures inside. =( But, Kaia LOVED the T-Rex robot. They looked real and moved around. There was a Triceratops and a Velociraptor too. But, she kept wanting to go back to the T-Rex. Britton liked the whole thing.

Afterward, we stood in line to meet Buddy from Dinosaur Train (on PBS)

Kaia and Mommy

Kaia and Daddy

The whole fam

Kaia with Buddy

We left and stopped at a cupcake place down the road. They were very pretty. And tasty. Kaia picked the Vanilla.

Yummy Cupcake!

Fingers are good too

She doesn’t mind getting dirty like Britton did, so she reached right in.

We think she had a fun birthday. It turned out she really liked the dinosaurs, so that was good. We love this little girl! She is so fun and adorable. Happy Birthday Angel!

And everything nice. That’s what my Kaia is made of.

Don’t you just want to hug her?

For her birthday we had a Sugar and Spice party because our girl is super sweet, but definitely has her spicy side. She knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to let ya know it!

I had a lot of fun with her theme. I’m a little bummed that I packed her invitation before I got a picture. It was a cupcake with accordian folded vellum to look like the wrapper, then the writing on the other side. We had pink, purple and white balloons, which were her favorite thing.

The party hadn’t even begun and her headband was already off…

For the Spicy side we had Mexican food: salsa, quesadillas, jalepeno cheese bread, beans and chips.

On the Sweet Side we had fruit, cinnamon rolls, sugar cookies shaped like a K, cupcakes for dessert and lots of candy. Some sweet, some hot (cinnamon flavored.) Drew was saving us from the flies.

A cute little party goer

Kids playing. We’re so glad our friends let us have it in their backyard.!

The party girl ate too. She’s always up for some tortilla and cheese!

She loved Daddy throwing her up in the air.

Get ready...

Yum!

Kaia was much more fun that Britton. He wouldn’t even touch his.

Loving her new owl

Birthday girl with Mommy

We had a great afternoon and were so happy that some of our friends were able to come and celebrate our little girl’s birthday with us. She had a lot of fun, and so did everyone else I think.

After this, I could hardly wait for her “real birthday.”