We had Emery's 3rd Birthday Party on Sunday, November 7th. She is obsessed with Spiderman, so we had to make the little girl happy with a Spiderman birthday party. We had a great turn out and I think this was Emery's favorite birthday party yet. Thank you to all of our friends and family who came to share in celebrating Emery's birthday!
My girls ... I promise, Paisely was happy, she just gives that face sometimes :)

The Spiderman cake I made. After being successful with the Elmo cake for Emery's 2nd birthday, I was confident that this cake would be just as easy and didn't do a trial run. I didn't even bake the cake until 9p the night before and the party was at noon. As soon as I took the cake out of the pan/mold, I went into panic mode. The outline of the design didn't show up at all and I was tempted to go to the store to just make more cupcakes and ditch the whole cake. However, Emery had been looking forward to her Spiderman cake for weeks, so I went for it. So, I basically did the design by hand and looking at the picture of the cake. I impressed myself!

As you can tell, the cake was also yummy! I ended up finding little hand prints of red throughout my house on doors and door frames. Good thing it came off easy.

Emery was spoiled as usual. She got a ton of toys, including her very own scooter. She loves to ride the scooter from the living room to her room on her way to bed every night.

As we started to sing Happy Birthday, Emery was excited ...

and then a little embarrassed ..

At the end of the party playing with her Spiderman Web Toy (silly string)

And lastly, a few key items on Emery at 3!!
- Has some imaginary friends that go everywhere with her. They include: Spiderman, Max & Ruby, Jessie and the Witch
- Is obsessed with Spiderman (hense the Spiderman birthday party). Emery says she is Spiderman, Ivan is the bad guy and Paisley and I both are Mary Jane (but she says Mary Jame)
- Everything is "no, I do it myself"
- Is the best big sister! She does a great job of giving Paisley her binky and "shhshing" her when she is fussy and I'm not able to get to her
- Tries to get up from nap time 15 minutes after being put down and saying "Good morning" - nice try Emery!
- Picks up every single thing I say and is a "mini me" for sure.
- Absolutely loves to rough house with Papa and be thrown around whenever possible
- Still sleeping well - usually 930p to 830a. However, she likes to come into our room between 3-4a nightly and get in bed with me to cuddle.
- Nicknames are Mama and Em
Emery is the best little girl. I cannot believe she has been in our lives for 3 years already - the time has flown by. She makes me the happiest person in the world. She is so sweet and kind hearted and hilarious at the same time.