Today We Are Three!

Bruce turned three yesterday, and what a day it was! We tried to fill it with good things.  In the morning we took Cinna to the dog park, and ran around as much as possible.  Afterward, we came home and tried to do some art stuff.

We tried making something like a mosaic (ish)

These are choosing the shapes, and sticking 

them on the pre-glued paperboard 

 

 

He didn't have a huge amount of patience for it, as you can tell from the end of the video, so we finished quickly.  Here are the results:

If nothing else, he likes saying "Cheese!" and posing.

So we took one more.

Then after his mom and dad got home, plus endless hours of pointless and painstaking torture (waiting till 5:00, the horror of it!) it was finally time to go to McDonald's for his party.  

 

I wasn't especially quick on the draw, and missed part of the Happy Birthday Song, sorry guys. 

 

Then it was time to open presents. The first is from a friend from church.  His mom babysat Bruce while I was at school, so they pulled the perfect gift from their stash.

 

He got some more Rescue Bots.  His daddy got him a really awesome Rescue Bot command center.  He's quite smitten, and plays with it all the time.

 

And here he is, barely picking at the icing of the cake (its his favorite part, if you remember from the video I posted way back when).

And here he is playing with his new toys.  He already loves them.

 

The best part about him only eating the icing, and a very little amount of it at that? He was begging us from the moment his dad brought it in the house to have some.  He even went so far as to sneak it off the counter and carry it in, suitcase style, to his dad.  He got a spank for that stunt.  When we got in the car to go to McD's? All he could talk about.  We had to go over the order of things all the way their.  First we play in the play-place, then we eat chicken nuggets, then we eat cake.  But when we actually get there, all he wanted to do was play.  First in the play place, and then with his toys.  

Its been a great three years with the stinker, and I love him from the bottom of my heart.  I wouldn't trade these last three years with him for anything.  Orneryness and all.