Jepps: 11/22/11

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

::he's three::

Cooper turned 3 last Thursday!!!

It snuck up on us (well me) this year. Maybe because of Chloe's baptism and family party being in November-it kind of threw me off, and suddenly it was mid November and Cooper's birthday-which is a week before Thanksgiving, which means Thanksgiving is a week away(2 days away by now). Wow.

Anyway, here's my 3 year old, being sung to on his birthday.

We took him to dinner. McDonald's. His fave. Then some cupcakes. The Lion King ones-he picked.  We sang happy birthday (with a few add ins), blew out candles, and opened a couple of presents.

We gave him a Chuck the Truck tumble tower (he LOVES Chuck) and also a Luigi shirt that matches Port's Mario shirt.  It's kind of WAY too big for him, but he loves it 'cause it goes with Port's, and it's kinda cute :)

(Avie helped unwrap)

They played for a bit, and then we called it a night.

So on Sunday, we had the big family party (Matt's side & my side). Even Papa Guitar was here for the party. We're so glad everyone could come. We're so glad for family who love us and our kids so much.

Usually the kids' parties have a theme that coincides with whatever they're into at the time (i.e. Barbie, Buzz, Mario, etc). Cooper was a little bit of a different story. I had been asking him what kind of party he was going to have for a good month or so, and he kept giving me different answers (Diego, trucks, cars, Buzz, Luigi, sharks,-and usually whatever he was doing at the moment was what kind of party he wanted). So he said Luigi, and that's what we went with. The invitations ended up being Luigi, but nothing else really did. There were Luigi plates, Cookie Monster napkins, Diego cups, a deer cake, and a few tractor decorations.

Very Cooper.

He was SUPER excited to open his presents. He was SO cute about it! I wish I would've videoed! Oh well, next time.

His deer cake. We went to the store to order a Luigi cake (give them a picture to print on the cake) and he saw a deer one sitting on the shelf. "I want a dee-uh one" So we got a deer one. Then we were in the store with our deer cake in the cart, and we stopped because a Barbie tote thing to store your Barbies in caught Chloe's eye. Bubb tried to stand up in the cart (he was sitting in the front where little kids are supposed to sit) and I told him not to stand up. So we were looking at the Barbie stuff, and next thing I knew, I was helping Bubba up off of his deer cake. He had stood up in the cart and fallen over the back of the little seat and right onto his cake. I guess I should admit that I was really mad about it. Matt was too. We might have made him stand in the corner for it (for the not listening when I told him not to stand up part of the whole deal). But now, I just can't help but laugh. Only Bubba would sit on his cake. It was a little smushed, but not too bad and it still tasted good.