The Big THREE!

I swear I was just writing about his first birthday! And now he's 3...

Potty trained, sleeping in a big boy bed/room, can dress himself, say please and thank you, sing songs, tell me stories... Oh he's not my baby anymore : (

The LAST little thing I hold onto is my ability to pick him up still, which is close to not being possible. Somehow 6 months pregnant in a dress and heels I still can manage to carry him into to school each morning. Chris thinks I'm insane, but how can I stop holding my baby?? Yes he's a 30+lb baby, that's half my height, but he's MY baby! I'm gonna pick him up until I can't anymore. Of course, I won't put me or our baby girl in danger, but I'll decide when it's too much for me.

Well onto the big birthday, this one was the best so far. Each year Xander gets a better understanding of what his birthday is, and this year he totally got it! For weeks we used the, "If you don't do _______, you can't have a birthday party!", now what am I going to use now? haha He woke up the morning of cheering, "Yay! It's my birthday party today!" then we cuddled and he let me rock him for 15 minutes straight, while I softly sang him Happy Birthday over and over and over. It breaks my heart to think I can barely rock him like that anymore. He's going to be a big boy just like his daddy.

Of course I kept with my yearly tradition and made him a cake. This year he got to request what kind of cake he wanted for the first time, and surprise surprise, he wanted a Cars cake.

I think I did a pretty good job on this one. It was definitely my favorite. My first time working with fondant, and I LOVED it. I look forward to making more complicated cakes with it in the future.

Xander loved the cake too. He was VERY concerned that the cars were getting cold in the fridge while waiting for the party and kept sneaking peaks to check on them. He did actually eat some cake this time, although only one bite, then mommy made him take 3 more before presents. Is it bad that I have to beg my kid to eat a peice of cake? haha I really am SO thankful for having a little man that enjoys eating healthy.

As far as gifts go, we knew that Xander would get everything he wanted and more, so we thought long and hard about what Mom and Dad should get for him. We finally decided our present to him would be a "Big Boy" room. Since we moved in April we haven't really spent time on his room yet. He still had alot of "baby" stuff hanging around. So we got him new sheets, blankets, decorative pillows, lamp, toy organizer, rug, even super cute wall stickers, ALL Cars themed! I don't have any pictures yet, cuz the sheets didn't fit, BUT I will post them when the room is totally done, probably next week. We even set up his tv and dvd player, though we are not bending on the "no t.v. in bed" rule anytime soon.

Onto the pictures...

Waiting, ummm, "patiently" to have cake

Singing Happy Birthday

Getting embarrassed when everyone starts singing (he made me blow out the candle again this year, I begged him, but he kept saying, "you do it mom" finally with the wind, I gave in...


Happy to FINALLY get what he wanted, no not the cake, the cars off the cake!

Opening presents!

This is the ONLY time in his life I think he'll be this excited about receiving underwear for his birthday!

No more presents : (

Back home enjoying the good life...


I'd say it was a pretty good 3rd birthday for the little man.

Big Boy!

Today I told Xander he was getting to be a Big boy, then asked him if he could say big boy, and he did! He said (in his adorable little voice) "Big Boy!" and then gave me a kiss, Wow! I guess I shouldn't be shocked, he has been saying several new words everyday. This is SUCH an amazing age, he's like a little sponge just waiting for me to teach him something new each day. I have started keeping a list to keep track of new words or things he does, but I can hardly keep up. Here is my list just for the past few days -

He can say: 'X' for Xander, he says "exxe" drawn out a bit in such an adorable voice, and I really think he knows it's for Xander which is even more amazing to me! I have been showing him the X hanging in his room for months and he finally got it the last few weeks. I also am trying to teach him to spell his name, I show him the word on the wall and spell it out every night x-a-n-d-e-r!

He can say Star and point out any star shape

He is constantly learning to put new words together, like yesterday while reading his favorite good night Dora book he said, "nite-nite bock bock" meaning good night chicken (we call them bock bock's cuz that's the sound mommy told Xander they made and it stuck! haha), and also "nite-nite duck" and "nite-nite bird". He is learning so much and he really loves this Dora the Explorer nite-nite book, he practically has it memorized and he just got it for Christmas!

He can point to a horse and tell you it says "neigh" and owls go "whooo"

Other various words he says now: Shirt, Shoes, Socks, Clock, Keys, Airplane, Book, Apple and Ni Hao (as in Ni Hao Ki Lan haha)

The below picture's are of Xander on Monday, I took out my camera and he began to dance in circles and pose, after each pose he'd come back and look at the picture on the camera and say "Baby!", looks like we've got a little performer on our hands, oh my!