Anndra is 3!

Anndra has been telling everyone who would listen for the past three months that she would be having a Max & Ruby cake for her birthday.  Since last year's Dora cake was so much work, I decided not to attempt making a rabbit shaped cake.  Instead, we printed pictures of the characters and had them standing on the cake - SO MUCH easier!  And the birthday girl still loved her cake.  Win-win.

A kiss from Daddy right after she blew out the candles.

This year Anndra was old enough to help in every step of the cake-making process: dumping the ingredients in the bowl, cracking the eggs, holding the hand-mixer as we blended the ingredients, scraping the batter into the pans, and of course applying the yummy frosting.  In the picture above, I was trying to capture how excited she was to finally taste it after all that work!

Unveiling the birthday present.

A play kitchen!  Looking inside to find the toy food and toy cookware.

Lincoln was just as excited to play with it as Anndra was.

A happy new 3-year-old.