When the Dream Never Dies: May 2016

Well, we have a three year old. As always, it's hard to believe that he's growing up so fast. The last year has been so much fun. I feel like I'm talking to an adult sometimes with some of the conversations we have. He is so funny, loves to learn and is such an encourager. We continue to go story time at the library each week and check out a stack of books. He can't wait for Daddy to get home and read all 10-15 of them. I'm not sure which one of them loves it more. Recently he's been checking out a few books on Presidents. He read one on Harry S Truman. We were standing in line at Walmart Customer Service to return something and he says, "Look, it's Harry S Truman!" It was actually Sam Walton. That made me laugh!

We went to the doctor for his 3 year well child check this week. He weighs 33 pounds(65%) and is 38 inches tall(68%). He is wearing size 3T and just got new size 9 1/2 shoes for his birthday. His heart murmur was still present at the appointment. It is very faint and they feel confident it is an innocent murmur. Otherwise he got a great report. He went to the dentist last week and had his first actual cleaning and another round of fluoride. His upper molars still haven't erupted. Somehow he got the idea that daily 2 hours are optional. Who told him that? He still naps most days, but when he doesn't he'll still sleep 12 hours at night, so that's nice. He has been potty trained for 3 months, minus a few accidents.

We had such a fun time celebrating his birthday. He loves the Royals and baseball. We thought maybe we should start with a T Bones game to see if he'd even stay in his seat and watch the game. May 19th was Opening Day for the T Bones. We went to dinner at T Rex then walked to the game. He did really well and we even had to sit through some light rain. A bag of kettle corn kept him occupied for a while, but he made it to the end of the game.

On his actual birthday, we had a party at the park with our family and friends. We served brunch and had about 30 people join us. The weather was perfect and the kids had so much fun playing. The theme was Thomas the Train. He is very much into trains right now and that was his first choice for a party theme. He wanted Thomas and Victor to both be on his cake. Aunt "Shoosh" Shannon helped us make a Thomas cake and had several trains chugging around it. He asked for several trains for his birthday that he picked on Amazon. He looked through Pinterest with me to chose a cake design, also. He has an opinion about most everything. He talks in his sleep most nights and is quite the dreamer. I'm afraid he gets the crazy dreaming part from me:) A lot of the time, he talks in his sleep about trains. Although, a couple weeks ago he woke me up at 3:30 am to ask what the name of the pizza place was that we went to several months ago with his cousins. Crazy kid!

Here are some of my favorites from the last 3 months.

My first flower of the season :)

Some friends from church invited us to go to the zoo with them. He was so excited to ride the train!

Great Grandma Mary Lu reading him his new books on Easter

What a great helper!

These 2 love to play pirates together. That is Caden's "pirate face"

March Madness at Power and Light. RCJH :) Love those blue eyes!

Very proud of his sucker plant from story time at the library

Easter goofball!

Easter Sunday morning at church

Handsome!

Oh the giggles:)

Using his golf cart to pick up the weeds Daddy was digging up in the yard. Such a creative thinker!

Go Royals!

Big stuff drinking his Starbucks water!

Having fun in the bouncy house at the Crawfish Boil at church

We took a day trip to Parkville and Weston. This was taken at Cafe de Amis in Parkville. It's a really good French restaurant that we'd been to several years ago and wanted to eat at again.