Sunday, August 17, 2014

Josiah turns 3!

Up until the day of, Jojo's birthday plans were pretty up in the air, as we weren't sure when the baby would come. Fortunately, when you're turning 3, complexity is not key to a fantastic day! It ended up being a quiet affair--just the four of us, homemade pizza, some cake, presents, and then a putt-putt golf trip.

Pizza on the deck!

A cake idea I found on Pinterest--easy to make and using one of Jojo's current favorite things--monster trucks! The "road" is crushed oreos. Oh, and Jojo is wearing his "blue guy" outfit because he had worn his favorite, "green guy," the day before. Did you know that shirts and shorts have to match? It's a fashion concept TJ has passed on to Jojo, except Jojo takes it one step further--his undies have to match too. So fun for the laundry fairy.

Think he's excited?

Blowing out the candle was tough!

One happy kid! Just a sidenote on the cake flavor--I had asked the week before several times what flavor cake he wanted. Every time he said yellow cake. On his birthday, while talking to Grandma, he told her that he loved and was hoping for chocolate cake. So yep, there's a box of yellow cake mix in the cupboard still and I made a last-minute trip to pick up a box of chocolate cake mix!

This was a perfectly timed gift--about a week before his birthday, he started asking for a "glove like TJ's." When you're trying to buy a present for a second boy, it can be challenging to come up with gift ideas--they reuse/share so much of their older brother's stuff. We jumped on the glove idea and he was thrilled!

TJ wanted in on the fun!


Such concentration opening the card. See the tongue in his cheek? Something he picked up from me.

Happy to have headphones like TJ!


Trying out the new ball

Showing off the new glove!

Brothers and baseball gloves

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