Quinn turns 3!

Quinny turned 3 last week!  Veteran's day holiday on his birthday came in handy - we didn't have to wait for the weekend to celebrate!  His theme was Bubble Guppies, since he loves to watch that cartoon on Netflix, although lately he's more of a Jake and the Neverland Pirates fan- but there was no changing it!  

When he woke up in the morning he said "It's my birthday! Can I open presents now?!"

Playing with some of his birthday gifts :)

Airplane mechanic

After presents we went to IHOP for a birthday breakfast and then to the party store to pick out a balloon.  I pointed out Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh, but he had his mind made up to get a Dora the Explorer balloon.  haha

Momma and the birthday boy :)

He really wanted hair stuff in his hair to spike it up.

Birthday pancakes

Quinn and the neighbor-girl, Shilo, eating goldfish crackers and Swedish fish for snack

Julie and Quinn playing with Play Doh.

The cake - Byrekka and I worked hard making the characters out of "color-flow" icing.

Decorations 

Singing Happy Birthday

Blowing out the candles 

Neighbors and Quinn :)

Blowing out the candles!

Unwrapping gifts

Aw, everyone was so nice with gifts :)

He gave Kiera a birthday boy hug :)

After his birthday we really starting hitting on potty training - and he's done amazing!  He gets so excited he wants a high-five and then he dances in a circle singing about how he went potty in the toilet. haha!  Part of the deal was that he could have his own underwear instead of hand-me-downs, so we have Mickey Mouse underwear on their way from Amazon.  

One day when I was turning off "Finding Nemo" I looked at Quinn and said "I'm turning Nemo off, okay?   okay?         okay??" and he looked at me and said "I'm not going to say OKAY."  haha! smart guy....

Ronin has had Mindcraft on the mind, watching endless YouTube videos with hints and secrets on how to play.  He and his friend, Bella, are addicted... So this is the beginning of video games and I'm sure it won't get better... only worse.  So I make him practice reading/writing in between videos so he's doing something productive.

Not much more going on that I can think of!  Thanksgiving is coming, I won't have the boys but at least we'll get to celebrate the weekend after :)

Lots of love,

C