Sleeping Beauty turns 3!

Please ignore the mess behind her, but isn't she too cute! Paige has been our smallest baby since the beginning, so it has been hard to realize she is not a baby anymore. I have always had a soft spot for the sleeping beauty story, so I admit to being secretly happy that Paige feels the same way. So when she asked for a sleeping beauty cake for her birthday I was excited to give it a try.
The hardest part was the hands. I just couldn't get them to look as good as I wanted. I have a new idea to try for next time though.
I looked at several options of other similar cakes online and this was my version. It came out pretty well.

Paige has been talking about her birthday for weeks, she has been pretty excited. We were able to go to my parents house and have her cousins and both sets of grandparents there to help her celebrate. Of course she was spoiled with presents and it was like Christmas all over again.

I'm just grateful to have Paige around the house these days. She is always full of so much enthusiasm for everything. Usually she is bright and happy, but if she is upset she expresses that with the same intensity. She loves to play make-believe and is often acting out these long monologues, most of which I can't understand, but I still find interesting because her face is so expressive. I haven't been able to get her interested in going potty yet, but that is our new project. She recently moved from the crib to the bottom bunk in the bunkbed we got for the girls. She loves it.