We had such a fun day with the brothers when they turned three! I literally just typed two instead of three and had to delete it! I can not believe that I have three year old boys. I love them at this age so much. They are so much fun and they take my breath away every single day. It's not that I want them to stop growing up, I just want them to stop growing up so fast! I remember there were days when they were itty bitty, when we put them down in their cribs at night and I breathed a sigh of relief that we made it through the day. Now, I say goodnight to them in their big boy beds and walk out of their room feeling like I can't hold on tight enough to these golden years with my spunky toddler boys!
This was the mornig before the brothers' birthday. They got to bring their treats and tractor napkins to school for a celebration. They wanted to bring donuts to their class just like Laney brought last year. I stopped at the donut shop on my way home from my early class at the Y and picked up chocolate donuts and got the brothers some little Spidey donut hole treats for breakfast. They were pumped! Birthday crowns, donuts and tractor napkins make for a pretty exciting day!!!
Sweetest big sister smiling for the camera!
The next day was their actual birthday, so we woke up to birthday crowns again and #3 pancakes!
Laney gave the brothers a gift before she left for school that morning. She picked a Lightning McQueen book off of her book order from school about a month ago, and she was so excited to give it to them!!
After breakfast, the brothers changed into their tractor birthday shirts. They have been asking for a tractor birthday for about six months now! I love that they cared about a theme and that they were excited about it. Music to this over the top mommy's ears!!! So we made tractor shirts! I cut the three out of the pocket that I seam rippered off of these $2 clearance tees!!! Hooray!
I love these happy boys of ours!
We met Todd at Chick Fil A for a little birthday lunch and playing. They were so excited to get eat with Daddy.
Chocolate milk pretty much equals perfection for Sam, the milk lovingest boy on the face of the earth!
Sam gave Miles a little help with his.
Look at this sweet sweet big cousins! How cute are they?!
Bobbis came over and brought presents for the brothers and even a me too present for Laney!! She was a smash hit!
Grant and Claire wrote birthday messages on our chalkboard! So sweet!
Grant had a little toy "wolfie" that Sam was crazy about when we were at the lake this summer, so Grant signed his bday message to Sam from Wolfie!! I love that thoughtfulness!!! Miles's message is from Yoshi, Grant's favorite alter ego!
Claire loves to help Laney register her WebKinz online and play games with them. Everyone was getting involved at this point!
Time to open presents. Todd works late on Wednesdays, so he didn't get to be home at all on their birthday night. It was so great that our family got to come over to make the evening more special and to make the gift opening more exciting!
Both boys, but Miles especially love to play with little figurines. I got them some Tubes, one with pirate figures and one with cowboys and Indians. In typical Miles fashion, he started playing right away and could hardly be persuaded to stop playing to open other gifts.
They pulled themselves away to open the gift that Laney picked out for them months ago. She saw these McQueen slippers at Target and wanted to get them for them so badly. Whenever we were there, she always wanted me to be so careful not to go down that aisle where they might see them. I love her sweet thoughtfulness!
They loved them too!!! She is under that pile of brothers somewhere getting a thank you hug!
They got some John Deere tools that were actually from my mom. We had to bust into Sam's package before his bday to swipe the J.D. hat out for his Halloween costume!!
Sam always loves to hang with Aunt Jessa, his "laughing buddy!"
Oh my gosh! Cuter than cute! I think that Grant Man turned 3 about a minute ago, so I am blown away to see this big nine year old holding Sam Bones!
Even GPK came over for a few Happy Birthday wishes! Sam was showing him some of his new tools!
After everyone left, we jammied up with our new slippers and had a mini movie night with a portion of the brothers' favorite favorite movie, Tangled! Hilarious that their favorite movie is Tangled, but it most definitely is!!!
