She is not a baby anymore.

Yesterday was just one of those days.  You know, one of those days when you look down at your "baby" and she is just absolutely 100% NOT A BABY.  You see her in a completely different light.  You used to carry her into places and now she runs full force and can open the doors herself.  You used to have to help her up the stairs and now she walks them just like an adult.  You recently had to feed her or at least sit right there and help her and now she can sit at a table and feed herself without making a huge mess.  You can now look at her and ask what she wants to do and she can tell you.  She is a big girl and I find myself in amazement of that multiple times a day.  

We started yesterday off with milk, Mick.ey and snuggles in the bed.  Since we got dire.ctv we can watch tv in our bedroom now.  We never do but it is certainly going to be nice on the weekends!  Can we talk about how long she is?

We all three then got up and got ready to go to a third birthday party for my friend Keisha's daughter Kyndal.  The party was at a new play center just for younger kids that opened a few weeks ago.  This place was so great.  It is basically a padded room full of padded toys for littles!  Win!  We have a few jump places and play zones in town but there are always so many big kids that it ends up being more stressful than fun for the mom of a toddler.  They can get trampled so easily.  

Anyway, this new place has a large room with a padded floor.  There is a small bounce house, a small inflatable obstacle course, a ball pit and many other small climbing gyms with slides and toys.  There are other smaller themed rooms....a girls princess room, a boys train room, a sports room and even a puppet room.  Blakely was more than entertained and we will be spending a lot more time there soon.  Here are a few pics of the setup.  Not great pics...I only had my phone.  

  

Playing in the ball pit with Jayda

Die mom-meee DIE!  yeah...that means slide mommy slide!  

She kept shutting poor Eli in the house.  

Quick pic with mommy  

climbing of course

This was probably her favorite.  I had never seen one like it but they sit in the car on the top of the "hill".  Then you give them a push and they fly down the track.  Oh me...she wanted to do it over and over.  I had to explain multiple times about taking turns with the other kids.  

So blurry but this little girl pushed B around in this for the longest.  

When all of the kids sat down to eat ice cream and cake I went to find Blakely.  I thought she was still playing but I found her sitting nicely eating her ice cream (which she had opened by herself) off of her spoon and not getting it everywhere.  I was shocked.  I mean how old is she?!  I may have teared up at that moment.  I just couldn't believe my baby girl was big enough to do that.  

If that was not enough to make me cry myself to sleep about my baby being a big girl then that evening was.  We went to a friends house and they have 2 girls aged 6 and 4.  The second we walked up their driveway B was saying hi and waving to them.  The three girls played while we hung out and dinner was made.  When we told the girls dinner was ready they came into the kitchen and sat down at their little table.  Blakely just picked out a chair and made herself at home.  She said thank you when my friend gave her a plate and she used her spoon and DID NOT MAKE A MESS.  After eating for about 5 minutes I just looked over at Lonnie and said "Can you even believe she is big enough to do this?"  She just looked like such a little girl sitting there having dinner with everyone else.  

After dinner we all went outside to play.  They have a great backyard and B was just happy happy happy.  She got to swing LIKE A BIG GIRL.  

Don't you think we need this trampoline?

Then the real fun started.  The sprinklers came on.  Oh my goodness.  You know it is summertime when you see kids running through the sprinklers.  

I can still hear the squeals of excitement from the girls.  That joy is just something you can't even describe.  How lucky we are to see life through the eyes of our children.  No worries or stress, just fun and love and happiness.  Oh summer how I love you.  The oldest girl came up to me before we left and gave me a big hug and said "Blakely is soooo cute.  Can you bring her back over to play soon?"  Yes, sweet girl.  Yes I will.  

We went home with a wet and worn out toddler.  What a way to spend a Saturday.  

My baby girl is growing up.  Makes a mama's heart hurt so good.