Owen's 3!!!!

How can it be that Owen is already 3?! I have no more babies, which is sad to me in many ways. We even threw away his poppies (pacifiers), that were completely shredded by the way, but he still loved them. I was very reluctant to do it because I think that was my last little piece of babyness left. Well I guess we do still have diapers, but we're working on that. Those, I will not be sad to give up, and if we don't get him potty trained by September, he may not be going to preschool. Mommy is ready for him to go to school for a few hours a couple days a week.

To celebrate Owen's birthday, we just had a bbq with family and a few friends. Grandpa Robert and Grandma Pom also came down and spent the weekend here and spoiled Owen, as well as Hannah and Justin rotten like they always do. The kids love it.

The Friday before Owen's party, I had no clue what kind of cake I was going to make, and I always make my kids' cakes in some theme except for Owen's first birthday where we just had store bought cupcakes and a store bought cake (Gasp!). Of course Owen doesn't know any better or care, but I didn't want to do that to him again. He loves animals, and I had animal plates and party bags that I bought many months ago at the Target $1 spot (a risky thing to do for a kids' b-day party because more than likely, the kid will not be into that theme at all by the time the party rolls around). Thankfully, Owen does still like animals and after searching on the internet for animal cakes and seeing many that I just did not have the time or talent to tackle, I found an elephant and slightly altered it and came up with Owen's elephant cake. He loved it and thought his elephant cake was so cool.

Unlike last year, Owen was very interested in the presents this year. If there is any kid that loves his toys and plays with them all the time, it is Owen, and he was very excited about what he would get for his birthday. Our family and friends did not dissapoint. With just about everything he opened, he gave a gasp of excitement, and his phrase for the day was "That's amazing!" He got lots of cars, a remote control truck, Star Wars figures, a tranformer, walking gorilla, some horses, bubble blower, a Batman helicopter, and he loved them all, but the thing that yet again stole his heart, was a hippo that Grandma Judi gave him. The kid has so many of these hard plastic animals, and I always think something else will take over, and he won't like them anymore, but he always goes back to those animals.

Owen and Evie--they are always glued to one another and up to no good. :)

Of course there was lots of playing in the water again this year. The only difference from last year was that Owen actually did the cake and the presents first (last year he had no interest in either) and got out of his clothes and into his swimming trunks BEFORE diving into the pool. It was a fun birthday party. Owen really had a great day. We look forward to another year with our funny little guy.