Robbie is 3!!!

Saturday was Robbie's 3rd birthday.  It's nice that his birthday landed on a Saturday and we were able to have his party on his birthday, too.  We invited his friends from school (the kids that he usually talks about came) and friends from Mom to Mom (ok, they might be more my friends, but they have kids about Robbie's age and they do play together sometimes).

Robbie loves showing how many fingers he is!

We let Robbie open his gift from Alex first.

"It's a helmet for my new bike!"  (Unfortunately he saw his bike the night before when Matt had it out to put it in the garage after it had been in my closet.)

We still made him "open" his bike anyway!

Grandma brought donuts for breakfast and Grandpa and GiGi brought bagels.  Robbie still asks if we have any chocolate bagels left!  After lunch he opened presents from Nana, Uncle Mark, and Mimi and Gramps.

After that round of presents we headed to the park where we had his party.  It's a nice and shady park with plenty of equipment for all of the kids.  All Robbie wanted to do was eat his cake, so Matt told him that it was frozen and we had to wait to eat it.  Surprisingly, Robbie bought it and ran off to play with his friends.  Lunch was pizza, crackers and fruit plus plenty of juice and sodas to make sure all of the kids had lots of energy to play!

Robbie's cake

Robbie and Giana

Robbie, Gavin, Giana and Ava on the bridge.

Buffet style lunch.

Campbell, Isabella, Canon, Robbie and Ava refueling.

Unfortunately it was windy when we did the cake, but Robbie didn't seem to mind that the wind blew out his candles.  Of course we acted like he did it!

Even though Robbie said he wasn't going to take a nap, both he and Alex fell asleep on the way home from the park.  I think if the grandparents hadn't checked out of their hotel rooms there may have been more nappers that afternoon!

After nap time Robbie opened presents from Aunt Brittany, Grandpa and GiGi.  Brittany shipped the gifts down and I wrapped them for her and it ended up that we had the same wrapping paper as Jim and Jean!

Opening his new Octonauts book that we have read every day (several times!) since he got it.

"It's all about Octonauts!"

A big bag full of presents!



Unfortunately Mark wasn't feeling well and he and Barbara left earlier than planned.  After dinner Robbie got to open presents from Grandma and Abuelo, Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Chat, and Aunt Lisa and Uncle Erik.

Opening his Tag reader from Grandma and Abuelo.

A Tag book

Another Tag book from Jonathan and Chat.

I have to say that Robbie was absolutely spoiled on his birthday, but he loved it and we are always thankful for our families!

Of course, birthday fun doesn't end on birthdays!  Robbie still had some presents from friends to open Sunday.  Matt and I talked about converting Robbie's crib to a toddler bed on his birthday.  That didn't happen because Robbie fell asleep in the car before nap time and we were all too tired to do it that night!  I did it Wednesday and told Robbie that we would surprise Daddy when he got him.  When Matt did get home from work Robbie said "I have a big boy bed.  Surprise!" :)  He did great a nap time Wednesday and didn't get up until 4.  Unfortunately that night he came in our room at 3:30 and said "Mommy, I have something to tell you.  Let's go to the computer room.  Not you, Daddy.  You don't feel good."  We talked to Robbie a lot yesterday about staying in his bed until 6 and he did great last night.

I told Robbie to lay in bed and this is as good as it got because he didn't want to be still!

Today Robbie got his presents from Uncle Nick and Aunt Robyn.  They boys were already playing outside when Matt got the mail and were excited to have new chalk to color the sidewalk with.  We read his 2 new books at bedtime and will have to try his new puzzle tomorrow.

What a fun week!