Charlie

As I write this, it is after 12 midnight, so officially my baby boy's 3rd birthday!! Gosh they grow up so fast!! Charlie celebrated his birthday with a few select friends on Friday Nov 23. There were tons of presents to open. He enjoyed every minute of ripping the packages open to see what was inside. Most of the clothes he threw aside. But he was pretty happy with the lincoln logs, books, and most importantly the MACK truck his daddy got him. (It's the Mack from Cars, which most know by now is Charlie's favorite movie ever!) Anyway, the trailer opens up and you can have Lighting McQueen inside and it has a washing station and all that. Unfortunately the Lighting and Mater (Charlie LOVES Mater) that Mike bought didn't make it on time, but we were saved by Kellie and MJ who got him a little Lighting. He has been playing with his *Mackie* all night and took it to bed with him. He got a few other toys as well. A big plastic 'beach ball' which will be a perfect outside ball when the weather gets nicer. A Diego sit and spin, he still hasn't figured out how to make it go, and lots of COLORING books and Markers. A total hit over all!!!

On to the cake. Charlie requested a chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting, and sprinkles. And that is exactly what he got. Everyone sang, and I mean everyone, Charlie sang to himself. Then he blew out his candles, with little to no prompting. I didn't even know he knew the birthday song, and what to do with the candles, he is bigger than even *I* knew! OF course Kinzie dug right into her cake and ice cream, she had it everywhere. But it went over well and was really yummy if I may say so myself! Can't take MUCH credit, it was a box mix!

After cake we played a little bit, then Sheila and her family asked if they could take the birthday boy to his 1st movie theater movie. I was a little hesitant as he had had NO NAP and the movie didn't start until 7. But they asked him and he wanted to go, so we let him. She said he didn't care for the movie, but sat pretty good through it, and afterwards they took him shopping and got him a box of crayons for all his upcoming coloring! He got home around 10:30 asking for 'Mackie', so I let him play for 30 minutes and off to bed him and Mack went to watch Dora!

It was a good and happy birthday all around! Wish we could have been around more family, but our military family really pitched in and made it a good day for him. Plus he got gifts from Nana and Papa, the Mumpowers, and Rene. So he really made out like a little bandit! There is a video and if I can figure out how to add it to the computer I will post it, or else bring it home and everyone can view it when we get there!

Now for those that haven't heard yet. Which I am sure by now is few if any! The day before Charlie's 1st birthday. We found out we were expecting and along came Kinzie. Just to keep with tradition of sort, last Saturday, the WEEK before Charlie's 3rd birthday, Mike and I found out we are expecting once again. The baby will be due sometime around Kinzie's 2nd birthday. In the military they call that a 'deployment baby' apparently, it happens quite a bit! We are all very excited and can't wait to go through this all again!

And now just for a treat, here are the pics of the kids in their Christmas outfits. Charlie hated his and cried the whole time. But Kinzie was swishing hers around and didn't want to get out of it! Don't they look so cute together??