Three years ago today our sweet Grant joined our family and changed our lives. He has been the source of so much joy, excitement, love and laughter as well as frustration, worry and concern (as every parent of a toddler can attest to...well, I guess preschooler now). We truly feel so very blessed to have him in our lives. We love this boy so much!!
Grant has such a fun, happy personality and he definitely makes life exciting. I love that he has been able to communicate so well for so long, it's fun to talk to him and hear the things he has to say. He always has us laughing.
Some of Grant's favorite activities include: riding his bike, reading, playing with friends, watching movies, singing, listening to music, helping with chores, playing his computer games and eating. He is also a great big brother and I can see that he and Tate are developing a good relationship as Tate can now play more with Grant (which does my heart good :).
Today for his birthday I let him decide what he wanted to do. We spent half the day at one of his favorite places,
COSI. He then got to skip quiet time to watch a movie of his choice, he chose Aladin. He picked pizza for dinner and then we headed to
Greater's for some awesome ice cream and playing in their kiddy play area. I think he could say this was his best birthday yet (you know, not too many to choose from).
It is only to become better after his Batman Birthday party with his friends this weekend, which he has been asking for since going to a friend's Spider Man party last summer. Pictures to come...
As I mentioned in the previous post, Grant has been asking for a "Batman birthday" for practically the past year. This past weekend we had several of his little friends over and finally had that Batman party. After we cleaned up from the party I looked at the camera and realized for some strange reason we did not take any pictures of the decorations (which were awesome), so in these pictures the only batman themed part you will see is the cake. This cake was easier than last years and fun to decorate, and I know the boys loved eating it!
A three-year-old birthday party is a very fun, very energetic, very short attention span kind of time. Grant was lucky to have all of his friends help him blow out his candles and open his presents :) We caught a lot of the fun on camera and it is quite entertaining.
The hit of the party was probably cake time, but I think everyone stayed pretty entertained with the games and prizes. Thank you dollar section at Walmart for sticky slap hands, animal parachuters and other cheap and entertaining toys.
The after party. After the guests left Grant and Tate pulled up a chair to finish the cake scrapes and have a little brother time.
That morning before the party, I passed a yard sale on my run and found these costumes for 25 cents each. (Woody has a hat to go with it, too). Dressing up is so fun, Ryan and I wish we could fit in them as well!
