Happy 3rd Birthday to Ethan!

Ethan has been talking about his birthday for ages. And after two of the other kids in his four person preschool class turned 3, he had become an expert. He knew you opened presents, had a party, sang the birthday song, and ate cake. So today, we did all of those things.

We started with a breakfast of his choice (egg-in-a-hole and bacon). Then presents. (Our house is exploding with all the toys his grandparents sent and it's not even Christmas yet!) After that he spent a few hours playing with the new stuff while John and I cleaned up and got ready for church. Church was fun b/c the nursery was visiting the primary today and they sang "Happy Birthday" to Ethan. (His little friends loved it and told their parents about when they would get to stand up front.) Afterward, we had some of Ethan's preschool friends (and their parents) over for dinner and cupcakes. It was really nice and Ethan was happy he had a "party". There were also phone calls from family and lots of surprising the boy with shouts of "Happy Birthday!" in there too.

Now he's sugared up and overtired, so all I hear is screaming coming from the bedroom where John is trying to get him into pajamas. Even if we have a miserable evening, it was worth b/c Ethan had a fun day.