It may be some comfort to know that these toddlers don't really want to drive us crazy, they just want to understand how we work.
-Alison Gopnik

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Gage's 3rd Birthday

As promised, I am posting Gage's 3rd birthday before getting any baby pictures up here. For those of you checking for updates, please know that I am barely able to get on the computer for more than 10 minutes at a time...and my goal this weekend (with family here again) is to get posts up related to my labor and delivery and our new baby boys that will be TWO WEEKS old tomorrow. Crazy.

Onto the Birthday boy.....

The week prior to Gage's birthday on 7-5, we invited a few of his playmates over for a few hours of outdoor fun. It turned out to be super windy that day (Welcome to prairie-ville WI) and we had to scratch the idea of the bonfire and roasting our hotdogs over it!

Gage wanted a Scooby Doo cake and Walmart has the best cake and icing in the whole wide world (according to mommy) so we ordered up what appeared to be an "M" for Mystery Machine? We're still confused, but it was sure good!!!
Here is the cutest 3 year old in the whole wide world (My opinion!)
Buddies on the hayride. Tim circled the yard several times on a couple of occasions. The kids had a BLAST!
Gage and his buddy Ben (our neighbor)
Birthday morning. Gage received a Leapster2 and some games from us this year, in the hopes that it would be a fun "Big Boy" toy to play with when mom and dad get busy with the babies, for car rides, etc. He also received a ton of Hot Wheels stuff such as new cars and tracks. Lots of puzzles, a new book and nursery rhyme CD.......he was so fun to watch open his gifts, as he wanted to take each and every one out of the package and play with it before opening any other gifts. VERY different from the past two years when it was all about ripping the paper!




Cousin Rich helping set up the new track.


Cousin Hunter


On Gage's actual birthday, we had another party with just grandma's and grandpa's and aunts and uncles (minus Auntie Katie and Uncle Johnny and minus Uncle Mike and Aunt Arianne this year) and cousins (minus baby Brian). We had a John Deere tractor cake from Dairy Queen (could mama be pregnant and doing the cake ordering this year??)
TERRIBLE facial expression of mama this year for the family picture....kinda bummed about that. However, if nothing else it shows just how uncomfortable I was....and I was on the couch the entire day. Sorry Gage.
Cousins Cassidy, Lilly, Richie, Hunter and Gage

Gage showing me a new toy and getting a picture of us on the couch!!!!

4 comments:

jenny said...

looks like a great birthday for gage! i like the last shot of you and him on the couch.

hope all is well with you and all your boys! :)

Swanson Family said...

Love the pictures. the "M" looks like it was supposed to be a "3" for his third birthday!

A Day In The Life.... said...

He looks so grown up!!

Meyer said...

What a cutie, Jill. So tall and lean; or is it just his blue PJ's in that one photo?

Hope all is going well for you guys!