Hooray for Our 3-Year-Old!

Time to catch everyone up with C's 3rd birthday. He really enjoyed being the birthday boy and today asked for, "More me bur-day, Mom." I told him it would be 1 more year and he happily said. "Thanks Mom!" I guess we hadn't covered the fact that it is an annual event.

We celebrated with a party at C's nursery school on Thursday. I brought mini cupcakes and and cute animal headbands and since we shared the morning with another little girl's farewell party, we also got in on a magician, games, and a pinata! Lucky us! And D had the day off of school for parent teacher conferences so she was able to attend too. Several little girls even brought gifts which I did not expect.

D had her friend Jeah over during the day on Sunday and the 2 of them were so helpful with icing the cake!

Wrapping paper is somewhat difficult to find here (of course, now that the birthday is over, I'm spotting it here and there.). So D and I bought plain brown paper and she decorated C's gift with interactive paper. I was way impressed. (Sunny or cloudy. Grass or mud.)

On Sunday evening we invited C's friend Reid and his parents over for dinner and ice cream cake.

C has been enjoying his growing collection of Duplo building blocks and some cool new Toy Story figures. That was the theme that emerged this year. Lots of building going on. We're finding there's no point in putting them all away at night, they just reappear on the playroom floor the next morning.

It's lovely being the mom of this little boy. He is changing so fast. So much to say, a new desire to hang out with dad and do man things, and also a great playmate for D. Is it weird that I still miss that 7lb 15oz bundle the nurse handed me 3 years ago?