Jack turned 3 yesterday, and we were so excited about his birthday since he loves birthday parties. The morning before his birthday I asked him what special thing was the next day and he said, "My birthday party!!!" We started his birthday off with chocolate chip pancakes, apple juice, and fruit...all his favorite breakfast items. After Owen woke up from his morning nap we went over to the mall. I bought him one of his gifts, we had lunch, rode the carousel, and I bought him a chicken balloon. Jack had a hard time deciding on what animal he wanted, because they had dinosaurs, zebras, giraffes, miniature dachshunds, and a bunch of other funny animals. He kept changing his mind, so I steered him in the chicken direction, because he loves making chicken sounds. He ran through the mall with it shouting, "cock-a-do, cock-a-doodle-do!"
We did facetime with my mom, and I just had to share this photo! She wore a special hat to say Happy Birthday :). Jack also was excited to open their birthday card that afternoon, because he loves opening mail. He took the liberty of opening one of Jonathan's birthday cards last month while I was in another room.
That evening we had Jack's birthday party. I chose a meal that I knew he would eat so that we didn't have to have any dinner time battles over food and could just enjoy ourselves. We had chicken tacos with guacamole, shredded cheese, and fresh pico de gallo. Jack jumped right up to the table to start spooning food onto his plate, so I was so happy he was excited about the dinner. We even got some birthday plates to make it a little special.
After dinner Jonathan took Jack and Owen on a walk around the block so that I could do a little decorating for cupcake and presents time. I hung up streamers he could run through into the kitchen, put some balloons on his chair, set up the cupcakes with his '3' candle, and put his presents on the table. When he got home he was so excited to run through the streamers and sit in his seat for a cupcake. The Happy Birthday song was an improvement from last year. Last year he cried really hard the entire song. This year he just looked down and wouldn't make eye contact with us :).
One of the many things I love about Jack is that he really loves every present he gets. He doesn't open a gift and throw it to the side quickly to move on to more presents. He always plays with each gift before opening the next. He's a fun person to give gifts to.
He kicked his soccer ball all over the house the whole evening. He also played his woof, woof guitar.
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