Will’s 3rd Birthday!

A LITTLE ABOUT WILLIAM:

Likes:	Dislikes:
cars, trucks, trains	vegetables (except corn)
dinosaurs	fruit (except pineapples and apples)
sucking his thumb	fish
his blue blankets	eggs
meat	lunchmeat
anything McDonalds	cheese
TV	brushing his teeth
beach/pool time	sharing
riding his scooter	using the potty
dancing	being told “no”
peanut butter & nutella
going to the park
chips
routine
LOVES preschool

 

Will got to celebrate his birthday 2 days in a row!  I sent cupcakes to his class on Monday (the day before his bday) since he didn’t go to school on Tuesdays.  I ordered the cupcake toppers online at etsy, printed and punched them out here and used coffee stirs cut in half as the sticks.

When I showed up at his class with the cupcakes, he was SO EXCITED and SO PROUD… it was priceless.

 

you can just see him all puffed up! His teacher, Ms. Karen (who is also our  neighbor) got the class to make this card for him. 

He wanted to leave school early with me, so of course I let him and off we went to get last minute stuff done for his party the next day. 

Before we went to sleep the night before his big day, I decorated the stairs with streamers so that he would have to break thru them to get downstairs and also decorated downstairs with more streamers and balloons.  When he woke up he had his favorite breakfast waiting for him… Cinnamon Rolls!

 

Some of Will’s best buddies (twins, Tommy & George) came over first thing in the morning to bring him a gift!  As you can tell, he LOVED it!  He left it on the whole day and even ran several errands with me in his costume.

 

It was finally party time!! I had to wake Will from a nap just before guests arrived… We had a neighborhood block party since it just seemed fitting for a Tuesday afternoon… everyone in our compound plays in the street every day anyway… so why not?! 

A friend of mine, Nicole, allowed us to borrow a bouncy house she had – the kids LOVED IT… I’m not sure where the picture went of all the kids in the bouncy house it was a sight to see! 

Below is a picture of Audrey’s sweet friend, Evelyn and next to it is MY sweet friend, Nancy (evelyn’s mom) and her precious younger daughter, Camille.

 

I tried to keep it easy the best I could for this party, so I ordered happy meals all around for the kids and fed the adults gumbo and potato salad I made the day before.  I made cupcakes but also ordered a cake – Will requested a KaChow cake.. (Lightening McQueen).  Ordering a cake here is so bazaar… they require you to order by the kilogram.  I was like ‘WHAT?!’  this cake pictured is a 2 kilo cake.. I learned that it will feed between 20 & 25 ppl.  Doesn’t it sound so irrational to order cake by weight? It just really annoyed me for some reason – to the point where I felt the need to explain how we order cakes in America and how it just makes sense. The cake dude was not amused.

As you can see below – Audrey had some friends from school come too and they hit up her mega dress up collection and partied like princesses.

 

 

Birthday boy enjoying his cake! and below some of the neighborhood kiddos enjoying theirs!

 

 

Will, you are the cuddliest, most affectionate little boy!  I love your zest for life, your charm and your excitement!  you’ve added a dynamic to our family that surely keeps life interesting.   Your “strong will” is not softening any as I hoped it would at this point in your life, but I know as you mature it will make you a wonderful leader.  When you and Audrey are playing and laughing it makes my heart so full of joy to listen in on you.  Your personality is so BIG – you just constantly crack us up.  You are still quite the challenge to deal with sometimes since that big, fun personality can be just as big (and not so fun) when you are unhappy.  Thanks for allowing me to give you lots of sugars each and every day and if you don’t mind, could you TRY to use the big boy potty sometime soon!?!

all my love,

mom