Three Years

That's a picture of my three year old. Wow, three years! I can't believe it. Calvin looks SO old in this picture to the left, but I know he's still my baby boy. =) We've had a really great day of birthday celebrating. We try to celebrate the kids' birthdays around lunchtime so that they can have most of the day to play with their new birthday gifts. Today, was no different. The last couple years I have tried my hand at making the boys fun, amusing cakes...and so that leaves me in the kitchen, the morning of, frantically trying to ice a cake that won't co-operate...but it's always worth it when they see the creation. Most of you probably know that Calvin loves all things "racecars" so I recruited Paul to help me make a cake for him. I was still the one frantically icing the cake, but at least I didn't have to worry about the shape...Paul did the hard part! =)

Now that PJ is a little older and understands more about gift giving, he, too, was frantically making a gift for Calvin this morning. He made Calvin a racecar out of Legos. I must say, Calvin was very pleased...pictured at left is PJ helping him open the gift he gave him and Calvin is saying, "wow!". It was precious!

Calvin had a little problem blowing candles out, but with PJ and Daddy helping, they didn't stay lit very long.

And, here's the finished cake. The only problem now is that we have LOTS and LOTS of cake!

Thank you to Grampy and Grammie for the Star Wars Legos (both boys had eyes as big as saucers when they saw them!) and the books.

And, thank you to Pappy and Nanny for the soccer jerseys. He loves wearing soccer jerseys. I will try to send you some pictures of him wearing them. From our family, we got Calvin a toy car Sherriff from the movie, Cars, and we also got him a service center for all his matchbox cars. I found this service center at a toy store and it brought back many, many good memories of my own childhood. My brother had a similar service station and I remember playing with that thing for hours with my brother. I thought and hoped the same would be true for our boys. So far, my thoughts and hopes are just as I suspected. They have not stopped playing with it. =)

As I write this, they are ending the day with a sword fight...and then it will be time for bed!