Eleni's 3rd Birthday Party

One month ago today our little munchkin turned 3!!

Here are the photos from her party...that was also 1 month ago....I'm not going to comment about these being a month late because honestly, I'm impressed with myself for getting them up before Thanksgiving...

 Eleni and Apostolis with their noise makers,

not that they needed them,

they're very good at making a lot of noise without them...

 Our little friend Barbara (pronounced var-VAR-a in Greek)

 A new friend on the left, with her mommy Sofia 

Danai on the right, Eleni's very good friend who had her 3rd birthday Friday 

and is having her big birthday bash today....Eleni is WAY excited...

 Apostolis finding ways to make noise makers even noiser

Well done bud!

I see a future career path emerging...

 Cousin Maria in back

Elenaki with Yorgia

 Olympia, 

by some miracle, 

sleeping peacefully through all the noise and chaos

 Having fun

 Michaela and her red balloon

 Theia Eleni (Aunt Eleni) with Yorgia

...Olympia is still snoozing

 Pig tails

 Aaaaand our usual battle...

"Eleni, can you take a nice picture with mommy? Look at Baba and smile!"

 Nope.

So then I try to make her laugh....

 And as usual, I remind myself that Eleni dances to the beat of her own drum

and I give up the fight

Who needs boring old posed photos anyway?!

Blowing out her candles to the Greek version of Happy Birthday

 Oh look! Olympia decided to join us finally!

She must have smelled chocolate cake...

that always wakes me up too

Yorgia and Olympia with Maria

We light the candles again and sing Happy Birthday in English

What a lucky girl, getting to blow out the candles twice every year...

that's TWO wishes every year!

And now, we're off to Danai's birthday party!

Gaga and Papa, get ready for a high speed, sugar filled chat on Skype later....it should be interesting!