Happy Birthday Big Boy!

Our big boy turned three last week and I still can’t believe it! You’d think that three years is a long time, but it has FLOWN by! Big Boy is obsessed with cars, and that’s not just toy cars, it’s the Disney movie Cars. So, needless to say, that was the theme of his birthday. I attempted to make a car-themed cake and I think it turned out okay. I just frosted a big 3 on the cake and tried to make it look like a road and put little cars on it. It was no Ace of Cakes, but Big Boy liked it, so that’s all that matters!
I had the wall above our table all decorated with his name and birthday banners, and then all the presents and the cake were on the table. It was almost like Christmas morning when he came down stairs, he got so excited! Maybe we were mean parents, but Shafer was running late for work so we only let him open one present in the morning.
At lunch time Shafer met us at a park in town for a picnic and to let the boys play. Unfortunately the day was not as warm as we’d anticipated, so we didn’t even finish our lunch before we were ready to go home and eat. Shafer had picked up some balloons on his way, so those were a big hit for the rest of the week.
Big Boy got to open another present at lunch, so that pacified him for about 5 minutes before he was begging to open them all. Eventually I had to hide the rest of the presents because it was just too tempting for him. He didn’t seem to like the argument that Daddy would be sad if he opened the presents without him there. Big Boy kept saying, ‘let’s make Daddy sad.’
After a dinner filled with Big Boy’s continued plea to open presents we let him open the remainder of the presents, which he did in about 5 seconds. It must be an inborn trait for kids to think clothes don’t count as presents because he just tossed those aside once they were opened. (I however, was grateful for the clothes that were given to him!) He was a spoiled little boy in the car department though. He got several little matchbox cars and 6 of the character cars from Cars. He was in heaven!
I could tell he was a little sad that all the presents were gone, so I was glad that we’d stretched it out, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to anticipate them all day!
We finished off the evening with a few rounds of Happy Birthday and cake. It was such a fun day and it was fun to spend it with our little family! Thanks to all the grandparents and family who called and for the presents that were sent; he was a happy little 3-year old!