Charlie turned 3 today (at 10:30am to be exact)! He was looking forward to today for a long time and has been wanting to say he's 3---and now he can! He woke up this morning and instead of coming into our room, went right downstairs and stared at his train cake for 15 min. Fortunately, all he did was stare--once we realized what was going on, visions of him face-deep in the cake raced through our heads. He said he just wanted to look at his Casey Jr (from Dumbo) cake. We had his party today with 11 of his friends from school and the neighborhood at Moonbounce Adventures, an indoor place in Kennett where they keep several slides inflated in an indoor playground. The kids LOVED IT, running around and going down the slides and bouncing around. The parents loved it too, because the kids were in a contained area and they didn't require a lot of hands-on attention. After an hour of playing around, the kids had cheese pizza for lunch followed by the cake. Everybody sang Happy Birthday, and it took Charlie a few attempts (and some help from Sofia, the girl to his right) to blow the candle out. After cake, the kids burned off some more energy by running around some more before the party finally came to an end. Charlie was sad to leave, but he had a great time. We came home, and after nap, started opening presents. This was a long ordeal as well, as Charlie insisted on getting out and opening each present and playing with it for awhile. We opened several presents before finally giving up and letting him play with everything. A very fun, but exhausting day! Happy 3rd birthday Charlie!
Jessica got Charlie the hardback Puff the Magic Dragon book, which also came with a CD with the song of the same name. He really liked it! Jessica wrote a note in the cover for him, and I'm sure he will keep this book for a long time to come! THANK YOU JESSICA!!!!
Blowing out the candles!
Charlie turned 3 today (at 10:30am to be exact)! He was looking forward to today for a long time and has been wanting to say he's 3---and now he can! He woke up this morning and instead of coming into our room, went right downstairs and stared at his train cake for 15 min. Fortunately, all he did was stare--once we realized what was going on, visions of him face-deep in the cake raced through our heads. He said he just wanted to look at his Casey Jr (from Dumbo) cake. We had his party today with 11 of his friends from school and the neighborhood at Moonbounce Adventures, an indoor place in Kennett where they keep several slides inflated in an indoor playground. The kids LOVED IT, running around and going down the slides and bouncing around. The parents loved it too, because the kids were in a contained area and they didn't require a lot of hands-on attention. After an hour of playing around, the kids had cheese pizza for lunch followed by the cake. Everybody sang Happy Birthday, and it took Charlie a few attempts (and some help from Sofia, the girl to his right) to blow the candle out. After cake, the kids burned off some more energy by running around some more before the party finally came to an end. Charlie was sad to leave, but he had a great time. We came home, and after nap, started opening presents. This was a long ordeal as well, as Charlie insisted on getting out and opening each present and playing with it for awhile. We opened several presents before finally giving up and letting him play with everything. A very fun, but exhausting day! Happy 3rd birthday Charlie!
Jessica got Charlie the hardback Puff the Magic Dragon book, which also came with a CD with the song of the same name. He really liked it! Jessica wrote a note in the cover for him, and I'm sure he will keep this book for a long time to come! THANK YOU JESSICA!!!! 
Blowing out the candles!
