Happy Birthday to Christian! He's THREE!

Wow, I can hardly believe that my baby boy is a big THREE today. Wherever did the time go? I made him a special breakfast of pancakes and bacon (his favorite), he was VERY happy! Since Xander's b-day is on Saturday, Hannah and I are going to make them both a cake tomorrow and do a small joint celebration tomorrow night as a family. You see, I decided years ago that having 3 kids gets very expensive when you have to host birthday parties every year so we only host large parties on milestone year, i.e. one, five, ten, thirteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty one, etc. On a milestone year, we pull out all the stops and make it a huge deal, all the other years, we quietly celebrate with family. Although regardless of the year, each person does get a "birthday" week that begins on the day of their birthday for one week. They do not have to do any chores, take out the garbage, etc and are basically allowed to just hang out, play and have a good time. They get catered to by other members of the family during their week, not a bad deal!

So, today starts Christian's birthday week. He is happily watching tv right this moment (a rare thing since we don't watch a lot of tv) so I will wrap this up soon and head down to play. Later this afternoon we are headed to a friends for an afternoon of swimming and playing and enjoying the day!

Here the "Moose" is riding a friend's bike while we were at the beach in Carlsbad!

I am so excited for my darling. baby boy, he is now THREE!