Happy Birthday Grant!

On March 20th, my little hero turned three years old. Since daddy was at work all day and had to be at class that night (plus an hour early for a meeting with his professor), we put off really celebrating until the weekend. On his actual birthday, we did go out with a friend and her kids (she has a child who shares Grant's birthday and her husband is in Kyle's same MBA class, so we were both school widows)to get some ice cream at least and not make it the lamest birthday ever. I was grateful that Grant's concept of time is still pretty vague so we could just party on another day. He told me that he wanted to have a Curious George party (his absolute favorite thing in the whole world), but then the week before, he also wanted to have Mickey and Elmo. Luckily by the time it rolled around, he was settled on George! Here he is demonstrating his thinking face. Curious George walks around like this all the time and Grant has totally picked it up. He will pace up and down the floors alternating which finger is by his mouth saying "hhmmm" ever so studiously. It cracks us up.

We were lucky to have Kyle's parents in town for the weekend and so we had a low key party with both sets of grandparents. Grant could hardly wait for Papa Spunk (my dad) to show up so he could rip into his presents!

Birthdays are so fun with a little boy who totally gets the concept! During nap time, Jerolyn and I made these darling monkey cupcakes.

It took a while for Grant to start catching on that he was no longer two. Now he will tell people he is "free", but hold up four fingers. That pinky is just too hard to keep tucked in!

The candles proved to be no problem this year. I remember last year trying desperately to get him to learn to blow (since it is a very helpful skill to have following heart surgery to clear out his lungs) and he had very little concept of it. This year, we lit the candles twice just because they kept getting blown out so quickly!

He finally has figured out that cake is good stuff... remember his first birthday (click HERE) or even last year where it was still a challenge to get him near a cake (click HERE ).

Grant thoroughly enjoyed playing with the undivided attention of his two grandmas (who he currently calls Ma-Ha's)... he is a lucky little kid!

Happy birthday Grant! We love you so much and are so glad you are a part of our family. We continue to pray that you get to celebrate many more wonderful birthdays with us!