We celebrated Samuel's 3rd birthday over the course of a few weeks. We did a mini birthday celebration while my parents were in town and then this past weekend we took him to Red Robin. Samuel (& Ben) love Red Robin! Samuel loves to get a balloon there. When they sang Happy Birthday to him, he got a bit shy. He doesn't really care for ice cream so Ben & I gladly ate that for him. As we left, he picked out an orange balloon. Not too long after we got home, it popped on the ceiling! It was absolute devastation! Samuel was SO upset! We felt so bad for him! It broke my heart to see his disappointment. So, after he went down for a nap, I went to the grocery and got an orange balloon. When he woke up, he was quite pleased and has not let it out of his sight since. Seriously. We tie the ribbon to a teddy bear at bedtime because he wants it right by him. He now carries it around the house in addition to his 2 Elmos. Yes, I said 2 Elmos. He figured out that we had a spare!
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| Red Robin |
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| Olivia at Red Robin -she mostly slept |
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| Holding the orange balloon that would soon pop... |
On Sunday, he opened presents & ate birthday cake. We wanted to do all of this on Sunday even though his birthday wasn't until today because Ben & I aren't home at the same time during the week (yes, it's a crazy life). So, all in all, we have successfully trained Samuel to think that birthdays and presents are on-going. He randomly asked me to open presents last week sometime.
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| Cars birthday cake |
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| opening presents |
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| Buzz Lightyear |
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| Waiting for daddy - right as we were about to have him blow out the candles, Olivia needed a diaper change. |
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| eating the icing, not any bit of the cake |
1 comment:
Happy Birthday Samuel! That is too funny about the 2 Elmos. We did the same thing for Silas' monkey but he wants nothing to do with the spare. Always choose the original one even though it looks quite pitiful these days!
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