Scott Turns 3!

Feburary 26th was Scott's 3rd birthday! We tried to talk about the fact he was turning 3 years old, but he kept telling us that he wanted to be 1. Not quite sure why... A few months ago we had taken Scott to Chuck E. Cheese for a fun night out and he absolutely loved it! So I thought that would be the perfect location for his big birthday rager. We invited his little friends T (Tanner) and E (Emily) and their families, as well as Grandma and BaBa. At first I thought we would just do pizza at Chuck's, but the more I thought about it, I realized that none of the kids would eat pizza... The most exciting dinner Scott and his buddies could image would be fries and "chupup" (aka ketchup) at In-and-Out. Emily and her sister Molly were THRILLED to go to what they call "the french fry store."

So we had an exciting dinner with fries, chupup and milkshakes and then we were off to Chuck E. Cheese! Scott's favorite things to do were play in the hamster maze that travels along the ceiling and play Skeeball (just like Grandma). He actually was pretty good at Skeeball, as long as we let him climb up close to target.

Eventually we had cupcakes for all the party guests. Scott and Grandma had a fun afternoon frosting all the cupcakes and putting everyone's name and sprinkles on each one. Tanner just had his birthday in December, so he was more excited about blowing out the candles than Scott was.

Then came the presents... T and his brother, Parker, gave Scott a cool Cars big rig that included Lightning McQueen and a few other cars. I would tell you the other cars' names, but we haven't actually seen the movie start to finish. Scott just identifies them by their numbers: 86 and 43. Emily and her sisters, Molly and Baby Heidi, gave Scott not one, but TWO Charlie t-shirts! The story behind this was at Christmas time, Scott told me he wanted a shirt like Charlie wears in Charlie and Lola (one of his favorite books and cartoons). It is just a baseball shirt with Charlie's name on it. So Laurie, E's mommy, bought 2 t-shirts from Old Navy, swapped the sleeves so they looked like baseball shirts, and ironed on the letters C-H-A-R-L-I-E. Scott was so excited! It is now 6 weeks after the party and he wants to wear his Charlie shirts just about every other day. So besides the fun presents he got from his friends, Grandma and BaBa got him a small trampoline and Mommy and Daddy gave him a T-ball set.

All in all, it was a very fun and EASY 3rd birthday party!

A Very Common Site...

If you have been to our house sometime during the past 6 months, you have most likely seen a little boy running around with no pants on. Scott has done really well potty training, but wants nothing to do with pants. So we see this site quite often, although this video was unique in that he decided for the first time to try and put his underwear on by himself! He did a pretty good job for his first attempt :)

Charlotte is on the Move

Charlotte is now mobile! Put a phone or a remote in front of her, and there's no stopping that girl...