E's Special Day

We wanted E to feel special on her actual birthday so we saved some of her presents and I made cupcakes. She LOVED it! She was so polite and any time someone told her Happy Birthday she would say Thank You!

I am loving this picture.  She does love her Daddy :)

I can't get enough of this little girl blowing out candles. 

Present time! The first one was from G and M.  Some dishes to go with the tea set she got for Christmas.

We gave her Diego, Baby Jaguar, Boots and Swiper to go with the Dora that she opened at her party.  She opened Swiper first and as you can tell by the look on her face she was not all that excited about him.  In fact, she was very afraid of him.    

She was so afraid of Swiper that she didn't want to open any more of her presents.

 We finally talked her into opening the others and she played with them the rest of the night.  Unless of course she saw Swiper laying around.  Then she would make us move Swiper somewhere out of sight before she would continue playing.  Silly girl.

In the past we have taken the kids to JC Penny for their birthday pictures. This year I decided to be brave and do it myself. I have to say, they turned out better than I thought. And so much cheaper :)

E's party!

We celebrated E's birthday Dora style. She was so cute and SO EXCITED! about everything. It was a great family party and we were so happy to have Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Wese, Aunt L, Uncle M and C celebrate with us.

I did the cake the night before.  It only took me 3 hours to decorate.  I have to say I was pretty impressed with myself.  Thank goodness for Wilton and their very detailed instructions :)

She loved the balloons so much she even gave them kisses.

We had a little dance party before everyone got here.

E has some great moves!

She LOVED her cake!

Blowing out the candles was a little tricky and Dad ended up helping but she gave it her best.

And then she devoured her cake!

She kept asking Dad for help and when he was too slow she just shoved it in.

G was there.

And so was B :) He was pretty proud of her "party hair".  Grandma helped him with it :)

M was there too.

And then came presents.  E was in love with this bag from Aunt L.  And then she opened the present and loved it even more.  A Dora cup and a Dora phone.  What more could a girl need?

A purse from Aunt Wese.  And this face was before she found the M&Ms inside.

She growled a couple of times trying to get the paper off this one from Mom and Dad.

DORA!

Grandma and Grandpa got her Backpack.  She even sings along with it!

Uncle M and C got her a Dora chair.

They also got her this Dora placemat.  Do you think she likes it?

G and B checking out E's presents :)

The birthday girl on a very important phone call with Dora!