the birthday boy!

My Beautiful Boy turned 3 this weekend!  We decided not to do a big bash for his birthday.  After all, he doesn't care at this point, and The Girl's bash a few months ago wore me out!  My tentative plan is to alternate birthday parties - one year for The Girl, the next year for The Boy, and so on.  The Girl is not a fan of this plan. 

But despite a lack of bashiness, The Boy's birthday was still a whole lotta fun.  The biggest blessing of the weekend - Nana was able to travel from Oklahoma to join us!   And Grams and Paw-paw, of course (they're local - also a blessing).  So there was much love and excitement for the new 3-year-old.

Some pictures:

The Birthday Boy is his new Birthday Crown (similar to the one I made for The Girl, minus the flowers and girly colors)



Sissy with her shiny fingernails in honor of the day:

The Cars cake (made by Daddy):

A High-Five after a successful blow-out!

The Girl waiting not-so-patiently but oh-so-cutely:

Yummy chocolate cake (which Daddy had to make the morning of the birthday because The Boy changed his mind about the kind of cake he wanted!  Luckily, he told Nana.  Otherwise, he would have been disappointed by a strawberry cake.):



He was pretty subdued for the present-opening.  He's not a wrapping-ripper, so The Girl happily helped: 

When he opened Sissy's present, she said, "Now your dreams will come true!"  Because he'd been asking for a Mater for weeks, and that's what she got him.  I think she was almost more excited than he was!

It was a very Cars-oriented birthday.

The one hand-made gift - a car carrier:

And the one decoration (next year there will be more - promise!):



It may have been a low-key birthday, but it was a good one.  And the Cars (plus some legos) hilarity continues.  "Play cars with me; play cars with me" is the refrain we here constantly right now.  Such joy over such small things.