Birthday Weekend

Phoebe has worn a dress EVERY single day for probably the last 10 days.  This has led to some creative outfits at school AND on the weekends.  Here's one get up.  Oh, and I should preface this post with the fact that we're attempting to grow Phoebe's bangs out.  Some days she wants her hair done, others she doesn't want you near her hair.  Either way, it pretty much looks like this by the end of the day.

This hair-do is courtesy of Nana as I'd have never thought to braid just part of her hair...and whatever it was that I did that morning had to be re-done at school as I'll be the first to admit, I have NO talent doing hair and no creativity when it comes to trying something new.

All of a sudden, Phoebe likes pudding.  AND if it means convincing her to eat all her veggies first, we're ok with letting her have some for dessert every now and then!

Friday, she spent the night at YiaYia and Papou's while Ryan and I had a date night.  We picked her up Saturday afternoon and although a bit tired, she'd had a good time.  She helped YiaYia bake a cake for our upcoming Sunday Birthday Celebration.  The cake was for GGPa's 85th birthday that due to the inclement weather, we weren't able to celebrate in February.  That fact didn't stop Phoebe from wanting a PINK cake.  Luckily for us, Grandpa is pretty easy going!  Ryan had to do a little shopping, so Phoebe and I hung out in a department store.  She promptly found a chair and a stack of books and was set till he returned.  Note that the large Elmo got the boot. 

Sunday after church, GGMa and GGPa came over from Anderson for lunch and dessert.  They hadn't seen Phoebe for quite some time since we were in Georgia for Christmas this year.  It was fun to see them interact.  She did entertain them with a few rounds of "Tomorrow."

Phoebe did YiaYia's hair.

Then Uncle Steve and his girlfriend, Courtney finally arrived from Chicago.  Although Phoebe was SO happy to see them, she didn't want her picture taken.

Here's GGPa with his pink and purple cake! 

I got to celebrate with a peach cherry pie from Grand Traverse Pie Co. (yumm-o!).

And Uncle Steve picked his traditional peanut butter pie.

Phoebe really enjoyed having Uncle Steve in town for the afternoon!

He got a shirt and lots of green boxers from Auntie Kate.  He'll conveniently be in Ireland for St. Patrick's Day so Auntie wanted to make sure he was decked out in the proper colors for the holiday!

And this is why our kid doesn't take naps - at least it was Diet Mountain Dew...

Phoebe announced during lunch that we got Uncle Steve clothes so it was no surprise when he got to our gifts.  At least she didn't know what the books were called that we got him!

Here she is showing off her skills with a glue stick!  Pink is her go-to color right now - sorry Uncle Steve - I'm sure it'll still look nice on the fridge!

We did manage to Skype with Auntie for a bit while we were all together.  It's sure no fun when half our family lives over nine hours away, but we look forward to having her in town briefly next weekend!  And here's one last cheesy picture of Phoebe and Uncle Steve before they headed back north.