You were born on Christmas day and it was the greatest Christmas present we have ever been given. You are special, that day was special, and we think it is so special that you have a Christmas birthday. We hope you always think that too.
This year you had a fabulous day. We woke up to Santa's arrival and enjoyed the presents under the tree. For breakfast we had our favorite applesauce muffins, but yours was topped with four birthday candles and we sang to you before you blew them out. Grammy, Papa, and Connor were also here to help us sing. After scarfing down your muffin, it was back to the Christmas presents.
Later in the morning we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's, where we had Christmas lunch/dinner and opened a few more presents. Upon returning, I spent the rest of the afternoon decorating your golf course cake (which you specifically requested) and getting dinner ready, while Ethan napped and you and Daddy built the mini fusball table you just got from Grandma and Grandpa. I let you choose anything you wanted to eat, so for your birthday dinner we had german pancakes and smoothies. An excellent choice! I think you ate at least half the pan. They are definitely a favorite of yours.
Although you had probably already opened more than enough presents for one day, you were still excited about opening your birthday presents. You received a game, some musical instruments, a blanket, a play tent and tunnel, and a Curious George DVD, but the highlight of the gifts was definitely your new bike!! It was so much fun to see you so excited about it! You have already ridden outside a few times, but we have been getting tons of snow, so that's not really an option this week, although you have asked every day.
The last big event of the day was the birthday cake! You requested a golf course cake a few weeks ago and so Daddy and I put our creativity together and came up with this! I think you were pretty happy with it. After the birthday song and blowing out the candles, we let you choose any pice of the cake to eat---you chose the corner piece where the candle had been. You silly boy! But you devoured every piece of it, along with two helpings of mint chocolate chip or "green" ice cream. It really was yummy cake, so good thing we had Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Camille there to help us eat some of it!
On Christmas Eve I took you to the store with me and let you pick out your very own birthday balloon, and you found the perfect one---a golf balloon!
Overall, you had a wonderful day. I think the highlight of our whole day was the new bike!
We are so happy that four years ago you were born into our family on Christmas day. It has been the happiest four years of our lives.
Christian, you are a happy, sweet, stubborn, bright, and fun little boy. You strengthen us, challenge us, teach us, make us laugh, and bring us unimaginable joy. We love you more than you can ever imagine. You have learned, grown and changed so much since you turned three, it's hard to believe it's only been a year!
Happy Birthday, Big guy! We love you!
Love, Mommy (and Daddy too)
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Yay for blogging mania! I love your new posts, so so cute. :)
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