birthday boy

Today my baby turns 3! Happy Birthday CJ!!!

Since his birthday is on a Wednesday this year, we decided to celebrate a few days early and had a little birthday party for him on Sunday. It was a simple family get-together, but a nice little party to celebrate CJ.

Staring down the candles before blowing them out {with Daddy's help, of course}.

Present time!

Yesterday we had a minor incident at our home. T came home for lunch as usual and Bubba ran and unlocked the door for him, then proceeded to run away into the living room. CJ was at that point running toward the door to greet T. Apparently a sort of collision occurred and CJ ended up falling and hitting his face on the floor. My poor baby chipped his front tooth! So T took him to see our family dentist who sanded it smooth {it was just a little chip, but the tooth was pretty sharp} and told us to keep an eye on it for a week or so to make sure there aren't any other problems with it. I'm hoping {and praying} that it will be just fine and that his chipped front tooth will just be his signature {as the dentist put it} until it falls out on its own. Thankfully it is just a baby tooth.

CJ's new look. You can see how the one front tooth is now slanted up toward the other front tooth.

It's still a really great smile though, isn't it?

birthday bash for bubba

last sunday we finally got to celebrate bubba's 9th birthday. (his actual b-day is december 23). grandma patty and i planned a pool party for him at a local hotel. our first date ended up with a major storm coming and we didn't know how bad it would be so we postponed the party until after the holidays. bubba had been asking for a swim party, so when grandma suggested it, i knew we should just do it! we invited 10 or so of his closest friends from church, awanas, and also a few cousins too.

everyone had a fun time swimming. after the kids started getting tired (about 1.5 hours or so) we all got changed back into clothes and had snacks, cake & ice cream, and bubba opened his gifts (not that he needed any of them but he is enjoying having new things to play with--especially his zoob and k'nex kits!)

i only got one pic of the pool area cuz my camera fogged up. evidently it was too cold and the steamy air just clung to the lens. grandma patty got a few more so someday i'll have to get copies of them from her.

oh and cj was so funny! he enjoyed his cake so much that he was licking his plate trying to get all the frosting off! funny to think it was just a few months ago that he was having a crabby day on his own b-day and didn't hardly want to eat his cake or anything! maybe we should have taken him swimming! ha!