I'm 3!

It's official....I'm 3!

When Quinn asked what kind of party I wanted for my birthday, I said a pirate party!

I was so excited about my birthday party- all my friends were going to come and even my cousin Owen! Aunt Debi, Julia and Cousin Owen came all the way from South Carolina to celebrate with me. I loved playing with Owen at Thanksgiving so I invited him to my party. We had so much fun hanging out with them. Owen (and Aunt Debi) played with my toys, we went to the aquarium in the morning and came back home for the party.

We set up the party outside on the big deck in our complex.

We brought out all our pirate toys, pirate books and pirate puzzles.

Mommy made me a special pirate birthday shirt.

We made pirate eyepatches and scarves for our friends to wear.

My special present from Mommy and Daddy was a pirate ship that we could all play with and color.

We had a walk the plank game where we had to keep our balance over the choppy water. There were sharks and crocodiles in the water so we had to make sure not to fall in.

This was our "beach" to dig for buried treasure.

Violet really got into it.

We also decorated pirate spyglasses.

And played pin the doubloon in the treasure chest.

Pretty sure Quinn was peeking...

Mommy made me a Jake and the Pirates cake. We already had these cool toys and we just put them on top of the cake.

After the cake, we used our spyglasses to look for X's that the big kids had hidden for us little guys.

One X marked the spot where the treasure chest was hidden. Inside were our party favors- Jake coloring books and crayons and gold (chocolate) doubloons.

It was definitely a fun party and it was so cool to celebrate being three with all my friends.

After all that fun, Sunday was my actual birthday!

My special treat was to go out for frozen yogurt after dinner. I put lots of gummy bears on mine.

Quinn liked his, too.

Then to go to bed I got into my new Jake the Pirate pjs, underwear and even a Jake band-aid!

Happy Birthday to me!

Kickin' It!

So here's what we've been up to lately...

I started taking tae kwon do lessons. I got interested in martial arts because of my love of ninjas. Here I am on my first day.

And Logan wanted in on the picture.

Right now I'm learning the basic blocks and kicks. I also learned how to count from 1 to 10 in Korean. And I get to yell loudly (when I'm supposed to).

Logan and Mommy got to have a special doughnut date.

My friend Liam had a cool magic birthday party. We saw a magic show and got to take home awesome hats and magic wands. I use mine to change Mommy into a zombie and back again.

And we had more snow! This time it was mostly ice and not much fun to play in. But you can't say we didn't try!

We got to play with our neighbors a lot when we were snowed in. We could play with them since we didn't have to drive anywhere! On this day, we decided to start a band.

A marching band, no less!

One day my school was cancelled because of snow but Mommy's wasn't, so I got to go to school with her and guess who I played with!

I'm really into Legos right now. Here is an award Mommy presented to me (under a bit of pressure from yours truly) for being "an AWESOME LEGO builder."

And here's a rocket I built and entered into the Lego Jr. Magazine contest. If my rocket appears in next month's magazine, I will be sure to let you know.

We've also been busy building with Logan's tool bench that he got for Christmas.

It's serious work.

Last Friday was Valentine's Day and we had a lovely family day loving on each other. Mommy made us pink heart-shaped pancakes. After all our snow days, we got to go back to school Friday.

We all went out to dinner and came back home for ice cream.

Just some brotherly love...

Until Daddy tackles us.

Happy February everybody!