3 Years Old!

Connor had a very happy 3rd birthday yesterday. I cannot believe he is already 3. That is so weird! Anyway, I just downloaded all 107 pictures from his birthday! Yikes! I officially decided I am not sure I like this whole digital age. I miss the days when I would try really hard to get a good picture. Now I just take five shots of each pose so I can make
sure to get a good one. That just makes it harder to pick which one, and it takes A LOT longer to go through all of them! Ha ha ha . . . Of course, I guess if we didn't have digital pictures, I wouldn't be blogging, huh?
Anyway, so we started the day with a birthday breakfast. Connor opened a few presents, but we didn't have a whole lot of time because we had to take Bradley to school. He loved his new "Barro of Monkeys" and his new polar bear book and stuffed animal. He has been "reading" that book over and over, and the boys both love to throw all the monkeys all over the house! :)
After we dropped Bradley off we went to Walmart and Connor picked out some new underwear! He has mixed emotions about this whole thing. Sometimes he's really excited, and other times he just cries and says he wants to wear diapers FOREVER! Hopefully that won't happen, but anyway, here's a picture of him showing Wes his new undies!
On Wednesdays out here they have a park day. I asked Connor if he wanted to go for his birthday, and he of course said yes. He even took some treats to hand out, but ended up being too shy to give any to the kids. I didn't take pictures at the park! Darn! But we did have fun.
Later I let Connor decorate his own cake with "sprinklers." I wasn't intending for him to use the whole bottle, but he had fun! He was really excited about the "sprinklers!"
We tried to get a cute picture of the kids because they were all wearing such cute clothes, but it was kind of a lost cause. Connor seems to close his eyes for 90% of the pictures! I finally decided to post this one because even though the boys' eyes are closed they all look cute! Here's Halley saying hello!
We let Connor pick what he wanted to do for dinner, and he insisted on going to the Bear Creek Diner. I was trying to convince him to choose somewhere like Wendy's or something, but he knew what he wanted! Bradley even tried to get him to go to Wendy's so we could go to the park after, but Connor wouldn't hear of it!
He obviouly enjoyed his meal! :)
And then, we ate cake! It was kind of sad. Connor blew/spit out his candles and immediately after wanted to touch the candle. He burned his finger! I kept taking pictures. Wes was mad, but Connor was so sad and cute! He was even complaining about his finger hurting tonight. I am so mean, but it was so tender!
Connor opened the rest of his presents, and the night ended pretty well. Thanks so much to all the people who sent presents and called. It really means a lot to all of us! I know sometimes the boys don't respond very well to phone calls, but they really do miss everyone A LOT! It was hard to have a birthday party with no famiy around! :( We love you all!