3 Years

Dear Carter,

      Today you turned 3 years old!!!  What, 3 already?  Where has time gone?  You have made these past 3 years the best of my life.  You are an amazing person and are such a joy to your parents.  You have such a personality.  There is never a day that goes by that you don't make me laugh with the witty things that you say.  You learn new things all the time, and are constantly amazing me with what you know.  

     Right now in life you are becoming potty trained again (for the second or third time...), you can  count up to 30 by yourself and well beyond with a little assistance, you love any thing that has to do with a car, you check outside every morning to see if it has snowed so you can go out to shovel, you greet your Daddy when he comes home from work with "Oh I am so glad you are home!", you love to eat and your favorite food is broccoli.

     I love you sweet boy.  You continue to teach me new things about myself everyday.  You have an amazingly sweet soul and the best kisses.  Happy Birthday Carter Joseph, you are such a big boy now!!!

                                                                   Love, Mommy

Carter decided to wake up nice and early this morning at 6 and asked if we could have cake then.  It was funny, but the answer was no.  Tim worked for much of the day today, so Carter and I headed out to the movie theater to see Alvin and the Chipmunks.  Carter loved the movie, and kept saying "Oh this is so cool".         After the movie, we met Tim at McDonald's for lunch and a little playing.  After that we came home to open the presents and once again Carter was spoiled with tons of really neat presents.  Thank you to everyone for the love you show our little man.  

I kind of slacked on the cake this year.  Carter has been talking about having a lawnmower cake for about 6 months now.  I was gearing myself to produce a sweet fondant lawnmower, and then I realized that Carter doesn't even like cake right now.  So I decided to go for the Raspberry Sherbet roll.  Added a little green food coloring, some tractors (since Carter said a tractor would work if I could not find a lawnmower), and called it good.  Carter loved looking at it, loved licking off the tractors, and just let the cake sit on his plate.  So, he did not eat this one either.  I on the other hand did!

Now both the boys are curled up on the floor playing with Legos on Grandpa's sweet Lego board.  This has been going on for a few hours now, and I don't see it ending any time soon.