Tori's 3rd Birthday Party with friends

For Tori's 3rd Birthday, we had a party with friends about a week before since we would be in Mason City, IA (about a 2hr drive from home) on her actual birthday. We celebrated at one of her favorite parks with cupcakes and a lot of playing.

Above is a picture of the kids with their hats and noise-makers (Tori loves these things). From left to right: Anne, Anna, Lauren, Hannah, Tori and Megan.

Above is Tori blowing out the candle on her cupcake.

Below she is showing us how old she is.

Here are a few pictures of Tori opening presents.

One of the presents Tori got from her friend Megan, was a Little Einstien's puzzle. She loves puzzles and it was one of the first things she wanted to do when we got home. After she finished it she just randomly started singing the Little Einstien's theme song (so I grabbed the camera and made her do it again).

Museum

These pictures are actually from earlier this summer, but I just realized that I hadn't put them on the blog yet. They were taken at the Children's Museum in our mall that Tori loves to go to. The first two pictures are from the newest exhibit all about dinosaurs. Tori has a lot of fun in this new room. Above she is holding a dinosaur egg that she found in the maze and below is going down the dinosaur slide.

Another favorite room in the museum for Tori is the pizza making room. Her favorite thing (besides cookies) to help me cook at home is pizza, so I guess it's just natural that she loves to pretend to do it, too.

Here she is picking out the toppings for her pizza.

After pretending to cook it in the oven she brings it over to Grandma for them to eat together. Then they must pretend to drink their drinks, blow on the hot pizza and then eat every topping individually.