Rainbows and More Rainbows

This time three years ago I was holding my new freshly 'popped' out baby girl in my arms and enjoying that moment where you get to finally meet that little person that was beating you up from the inside for a few months. Now she's all tucked into her bed after a busy day of family and partying. Time really does fly by. I've always enjoyed my kids and they all are my favourite for different reasons but today we got to celebrate Madison Moffat Beattie being chosen for us, a perfect fit to our family!
As per her request we gave her a rainbow party to the extreme. This week as I prepared rainbow jell-o, rainbow pudding pops, rainbow cupcakes decorated with rainbow icing I was continually motivated by her excitedness as she would jump up and down with the smile only Maddy can have each time she saw a rainbow treat made for her birthday. So I continued to work hard in the kitchen enjoying that smile. I even had an extra burst of energy and arranged skittles into a rainbow to let the adults take a guess at home many it took to fill the jar (846).
I'd like to point out that I proved social networking can work to someones advantage with this party since I took quite a few idea's from pinterest to pull off the rainbow magic. All easy but time consuming since I had to make 30 of everything in case every cousin, aunt, uncle and grandparent wanted a taste. I have to admit I thought the JELL-O was pretty! and the frozen pudding pops didn't turn out too bad either.

We made kool-aid ice cubes so they were rainbow-ish and filled cups with sprite and dropped the ice cubes in and Ryan topped them off with Rainbow licorice as straws, how genius is he!? Of course the grand finale was the cupcakes. I added food colouring to the cake mix and adding each colour individually causing the cupcakes to cook like rainbows and topped them off with rainbow swirls. Again really easy, just time consuming ... I cannot say enough good things about Wilton's colour gel when dealing with icing. Such vibrant colours!

And so as my baby girl isn't a baby anymore I'd like to take a few moments and share why she's just so special to us:
A smile that melts our hearts - she has this look that our other kids didn't really have that I can hardly resist. She's always smiling (or screaming but mostly smiling).
She's our entertainer - Maddy LOVES attention and loves doing funny things to get it.
She's a dancing queen - She has always loved dancing and can't resist a good tune, she especially loves dancing in front of a mirror or watching her reflection in the television. It's hilarious.
She is so polite - She thanks me for every dinner, almost always says please and thank you and loves to help set the table.
She likes me to sing to her when I tuck her in - I've sung to each my babies even though I'm tone deaf but Maddy recently has been asking me to sing to her the "Child of God song" or "Family" or "Temple" song when I put her to bed. It makes me feel good inside to have her like those moments with me.
Her eyes always sparkle with happiness - I believe that my kids will never be able to deny they are loved. They are surrounded by people who love them and want them to be happy. Madison's eyes are always sparkling with an inner happiness and I can even catch that glimmer on the camera from time to time.

So, yay for Madison and her turning three. We love her and I can't imagine our little family without her being a part of it. She definitely is something special.