Yippee... I'm Three

There is nothing like being woken by the tiniest of voices whispering, "I want to show you something." You wrestle your tired eyes open
& struggle with your sleepy head but the excitement in his voice helps to push you up. He happily escorts your sleepy head out of bed
& down the stairs. You both shuffle into the kitchen where he gives a long side stare, then nods & happily replies, "It's a birthday!"

Yes sweet boy... it's your birthday!!!!


Our morning was filled with under table play & colorful cereal eating,
coffee & juice, red balloon, blue balloon, yellow balloon find, cleaning &
decorating, car play & cuddles, putting on our birthday shirt & heading off to church :)


Our afternoon was grand!!!! Awesome friends to celebrate with, roast in the crock pot &
nuggets in the oven, happy birthdays from all around & inside play,
party horns & scraping icing straight from the cake, pictures with the birthday boy
& monster truck treats, blow out the candle & scrap up a bit more icing,
messy faces & sticky hands, having your cake & eating it too!

Thanks to Jillian for capturing these wonderful cakey
family moments for us with our little one :)

You just loved your Monster Truck cake & I just loved making it for you!





Thoughtful gifts presented, seeing the surprise on your face, a new/used bike all your own,
watching you ride your bike for the first time, "Watch Mommie! I go fast!",
wooden puzzle play, & big brother bike riding time!


You were pretty excited &
ready to take on the neighborhood hill!!!!



Go, Ethan, Go!!!

The Biking Birthday Boy


Biking Brothers

Best Buds

a choo-choo, a kite, a boat & a fishy, which shape goes where?
when i watch him do these i can almost see the little gears
working in his head, thanks again Myers 6!

His Happy Birthday to Myself Dance...
what you don't have a happy birthday dance?

Because blowing out the flame once on your birthday is just not enough,
you need Mommie to re-light the candle "just-one-more-time" :)


more scraping of the icing, you really enjoyed the black frosting,
think it had to do with the fact that it was sugar cookie icing,
extra yummy! but the color of your tongue was a bit yucky!!!!

My good friend, Jillian & I during after party hours

though you may not have fully understood the concept of the wonderful paper tickets your Daddy made,
you were equally as excited just to have the tickets {you know like Polar Express} to pretend & dream about monster trucks!
Notice the section, row & seat numbers... your birth date!!!
your face says it all here, pure joy, happiness,
& excitement from such a wee bean of three!!!!

we ended our night with bedtime stories, cuddles, & Mommie & Daddy listening to you ramble on about your day at church
"with the kids"... "We play with the other kids, had cookies, they said happy birthday & bye, needed my book bag &
we go bye bye!" it was sweeter than the chocolate cake on your shirt!

You do truly light up our world bear!
And until next year...
Happy Birthday my Littlest Bean!!!!!!

Much Love~

Mommie, Daddy & Orion xoxo