Happy Birthday Lilly

3 Years old today!!!

Our little red head is determined to grow up, go to school, do some dancing and get married.
Lilly has always wanted to do things her way. She started out by coming late, much to Mom's dismay. Mom even tried to force her our on her due date, by shoveling snow.

Of course if she didn't come late we wouldn't have this picture. Lilly was born 8 days before her cousin.

Mommy was induced to bring Lilly here, because she didn't want to come out. We knew from the moment Lilly's head started to poke out she had red hair.

Everything has to go into Lilly's mouth.

Lilly always has a fun time. Don't stop her from trying to do what she wants to do.

She has also perfected the "Jessup scowl."

Lilly is one brave "cupcake." For her birthday she got her ears pierced. She has been begging to do it since her sister got hers pieced (last month for her birthday). A 2-year old girl went before us. Lets just say it didn't go well. The girl ended up ripping the gun out of the ladies hand while piercing the first ear. After that the girl was a wreck the rest of the time. Lilly just stood there asking "is it my turn now." She was not going to be stopped. As soon as the girl got out of the chair Lilly was in it and waited patiently for 5-10 minutes until the lady helped some other customers. She just kept grinning (see below). When it was her turn she did cry, but even through the tears she sat still and kept moving her head so we could check the ears and do the next one.

Lilly has had a good run for the "terrible twos" (just see our previous posts). Lets just hope she is like her dad and mellows out at 3.......