My seriously sweet and handsome little O is growing up way too fast! This weekend we celebrated his
3rd birthday. Does that not just sound crazy?!?!
Just after he went to bed Friday night, I got out the leftover streamers and balloons from Ben's party and started decorating his bedroom door (I stole this idea from Joanna....) and I finger painted a Happy Birthday sign to hang at the top of the doorway.
As soon as Ben woke up Saturday morning, we got up and waited outside Owen's room so we could capture his excitement as he walked through the streamers and discovered that today was the day we had been talking about for weeks now!
Well, I was afraid we might have to sit there for awhile, so I knocked on his door and a very grumpy boy stumbled through the streamers and looked like he was going to cry (not exactly the reaction I was going for.) Finally after he "woke up," he was super excited and kept thanking us for the streamers and balloons. (And then I had him pose and smile...the first picture I took was of him looking mad and half asleep.)
Owen LOVES muffins, so we came downstairs and started a batch of Pumpkin-bran muffins and then sung Happy Birthday and he blew out 3 little candles on his muffin (note to self: let muffins completely cool before putting wax candles into them.)
We then marked off the final day of his birthday countdown...
Got dressed...as I was dressing him, he said to me, "I don't want to look like Daddy."I thought he looked handsome in his button down shirt. I guess he was content in his t-shirt and jeans...
He then stood at the window waiting ... He said, "Have my guests arrived?"
We had a cake made at Coldstone Creamery that was supper yummy! They didn't have a dinosaur cake in their book, but the owner worked with me and we came up with this...
and he loved it
We decided to celebrate with a small gathering at our house on his actual birthday. It was us, my mom and Chip,my grandmother, Nana and Bobo, Danny's dad and step mom and Julie and Shon. We had a perfect day with cake, snacks and lots of presents!
Later that night, me and Danny got started on a homemade Dinosaur cake for his party on Sunday.
Sunday, November 8th
Hand On Children's Museum
A little embarrassed of all the attention...
a group shot of the kids (we had to jump in and hold the babies...)
We waited until that night to open gifts at home. We had so much fun watching Owen get so excited and he LOVED everything he got. I know he was so tired of baby toys and now he finally has some big boy stuff to play with.
I get so stressed when it comes to favors for the kids. I didn't want to do candy since it was just Halloween and I didn't want to fill bags with junk that the parents would just throw away, so we made these name tags for all the kids. And by made, I mean just putting their names on them, drilling holes and adding ribbon.
(I would share more pictures, but the setting must be off on my camera or something, because almost all the pictures are really blurry. )
