3rd Birthday

This year for Lauren's birthday we decided to have just a family birthday party and it turned out great. My parents and K,B,J,T and Brian's parent's and Matt, Anika, Maya, and Alexis all came. One lesson I did learn was that you shouldn't have the party start so late in the day. Lauren just kept asking when they were going to get here. I also let Lauren decide on what cake she wanted...chocolate with chocolate. It was really cute. I didn't even know she liked chocolate...but I guess who doesn't. Her party was also princess themed. We had the princess balloons and decorations. It was wonderful. Also, this year because Lauren is in preschool two days a week we were able to take in donuts for her to share with her class. I was so excited and nervous about this. I have never had a child in class before and she was the first child to have a birthday so I wanted it to go over smoothly. We had decided to do Halloween decorated donuts for her to take to class. I had Brian get the donuts that morning on his way home from the gym. When he brought home the donuts they were not what I thought they were going to be. Now I don't know if it was because I was pregnant or not but I almost started to cry. I was really taking this school celebration very serious! Luckily he told me to just run back to the store and pick out what I wanted. As crazy as I thought that would be...I still hopped in my car and went and got anohter dozen donuts. After the donut crisis we headed to school. I was excited, however nervous that just the few days before I had potty trained Lauren and I was so worried that on her birthday day at school she would have an accident. Well after all the worrying I got a call from preschool. The teacher said she fell and hit her head and was pretty upset. I heard hit her head and I think my car and I made it to the school in about 2 seconds. When I arrived she was sitting on her teachers lap with red eyes. It broke my heart. They had made her a paper crown hat with the # 3 on it and she couldn't even wear it because she was so upset. Well because she was upset she had a runny nose and started coughing so the teachers felt she could be sick. So from preschool we went to the doctors office. After sitting around in all the germs we waited for the strep test and all the results were negative. The doctor felt she was ok just had a cold. That was a relief. But what wasn't a relief was while we were waiting and I was trying so hard not to let her touch anything for fear she would pick up the flu- I turned my back for one second and catch her licking the bench where all the sick kids had been sitting. I didn't know what to do. By that point, I was just hoping we could make it home! (Check out the photo album link for pictures from her birthday.)