a third birthday

We were so lucky to have family come to town for P's birthday this year! My parents are currently living in Dallas so they drove down to spend the weekend and they brought P's favorite cousin with them, Mads! They were born 9 days apart so they have been best friends and partners in crime from the beginning. We tried to put them in the same room on the first night and realized almost instantly that it wouldn't work (we walked in to find them throwing all of their pillows and blankets into poor little A's crib). 

We spent the day at the Zoo, which is where we have gone for P's last two birthdays. Here his is on his first birthday:

And here we are today. We've obviously both improved at actually looking at the camera:

Look at him! Look at how big his has grown!!

Here is part of our crew. Nana was kind enough to snap the picture and A wasn't having any of it since it was nap time. Poor guy.

P asked for a construction vehicle party, so after scouring Pinterest for hours I settled on this cake: Easiest thing ever and perfect for someone (like me) who cannot make a cake look pretty for the life of me. It tasted increeeeedible, believe that, but I just cannot do pretty food. It's a curse. Aaannnd I'm making this post about me - BACK TO THE BIRTHDAY BOY...he loved it!

He talked about his cake all day long. Chocolate cake. Chocolate frosting. He's a choco-holic.

Look at that proud face!

This was the first year that he started to 'get' what was going on. He has been to so many birthday parties this past year and has watched all of his friends blow their candles and unwrap their presents that he knew exactly what to do.

And now to the cliché segment of this post: Wow. Just Wow. 3 years? Really? Where has the time gone? He is so big and talking so much and reasoning and asking lots and lots and lots and lots of questions. P! We love you. Everything about you and we are SO happy that you came to our family. I'm so excited to see how you grow this next year even though I'm secretly hoping (and maybe even praying) that you will stay my little guy forever.