Cosette turns 3

Our little girl is now 3 years old!  I can't believe how big she's getting.

Here she is opening a present from Mom and Dad, some new furniture for her doll house.

Grandma made a felt playhouse that goes over a cardboard table.  I only took a picture of two sides, but it is really cool.  One side has a flap door and a mailbox that opens and shuts with velcro.  Cosette loves playing a game we call "special delivery," where she's sitting inside the playhouse and I open the mailbox and hand her a toy, saying "special delivery" while I do it.  Two of the sides have windows with a mesh material in them so you can see through it.  Then Cosette can put flowers in the flower box on the windowsill, pick spinach, corn and carrots from the garden, and pick peaches from the peach tree and put them in a little basket.

Her birthday was on a Saturday this year, so we decided to have a birthday party with her two friends Elsie Crawford and Emily Anderson.  The party had a rainbow theme (thanks for the idea, Suzanne).
Grandma made this fun birthday cake with M'n'ms.  It was strawberry flavored and tasted REALLY good.

We did a few simple games, and the girls got to pick different colored prizes to go in their gift bags.  I bought some taffy, flavored tootsie rolls, bouncy balls, and necklaces at the dollar store.

As we waited for people to arrive the girls decorated gift bags and colored their own rainbow (half a paper plate).

Emily and Elsie did a lot of "helping" when it came to opening presents.  These three girls are really cute together.

Wearing a rainbow outfit she got from Grandma and Grandpa.  I tried to get her to wear it to the party, but she decided not to.