Birthday thoughts

Whenever Hannah has a birthday I think to myself "I'm can't believe I have a 7 year old" or whatever age she is turning. When Jake has a birthday I think to myself "Wow, I'm never going to have a three year old again after tomorrow." I have to say, as much as I want Jake to get past the 3 year old stage, his birthday's are always much sadder for me.

Have we finally reached a turning point?

Jake just woke up from his nap, during which he was wearing a pull-up, and he informed me that "babies wear diapers and pull-ups but big boys wear big boy pants and that's what he wants to wear".

Yay!

Huh?

Yesterday Jake received a truck carrying case for his birthday. It comes with 17 vehicles in it - 16 cars and a semi-truck. This morning he and Hannah were playing with them and the cars were stuck in a traffic jam (can you tell we leave near a big city?). The 17 vehicles were all in a line with the semi truck at the very end.

Jake (holding onto the semi): This guy likes to be in traffic so that he can listen to soft, soft music.

Huh?

The Joker

By the way, the joker mouth Jake is sporting in the picture below is courtesy of the fruit punch he was drinking. Not some wintery rash around his mouth.

Birthday Party #1

This morning was Jake's "kid" party. He chose to go Pinz which is a bowling alley and arcade. We had two lanes so we put the older kids (Hannah, Hunter, and Kali) on one lane and all the 3 and 4 year olds (of which there were 5 of them) on the other lane. Two more of Jake's friends, Coby and Nate, showed up after the bowling part but before the arcade part. The kids had a great time bowling and then we had pizza and cake. After presents they got to go play in the arcade. Part of the birthday party package is a $5 arcade card for each kid along with 100 instant points for the Prize Redemption Center.

Here are a few pictures from Jake's party today.

P.S. So far today he has kept his pants dry (and clean) despite the excitement of his birthday party. We gave him the deadline of his 4th birthday for potty training and he's been doing pretty good lately. We'll see how he continues to do.

P.P.S. We've been home from Jake's party and I already have the Thank You notes done and ready to mail and the pictures on the blog. Am I good or what?

Birthday Party Day!

Today is Jake's birthday party - parties actually - so he's very excited. He is having a bowling party this morning with his friends from school and then we're having Lincoln's family over tonight for the family party.

Tomorrow we get to go shopping for a new washing machine. It definitely won't be a relaxing weekend but I've only got a couple more weeks until my office is closed for two weeks. I can't wait.

Ewww

So apparently our washing machine has some sort of moldy gunk in it. Guess who is going appliance shopping this weekend?