Nathan Turns Three

Nate is now of an age where he's had enough experiences with presents that he knew his birthday (and Christmas) meant presents, and he talked about both events quite a bit lately. Of course we helped him with that by asking him what he wanted. His Birthday/Christmas list has been pretty steady with the emphasis changing depending on his mood. Trains, dump trucks, monster trucks and most recently Jake and the Neverland Pirates stuff. Every time we went to Target or Walmart he wanted to look at the toys, but we told him he couldn't get any right now. He was generally pretty okay with that.

On Thursday evening we blew up some balloons and I hung a Happy Birthday banner in the kitchen. I had a Jake and the Neverland Pirates shirt for Nate to open when he woke up and wear for the day. I woke him up a few minutes early so he could open his shirt and see Eddie before he left for work. Nate and I had a normal day doing stuff around the house and running a few errands. We went on a little "hike" in the BLM land behind our house. It was still pretty muddy from the rain, but we had fun walking around.



Nate found a bike tire to haul around in the desert while he looked for the bike it belonged to. We are still working on smiling for the camera.

Our house is the 1 story in the middle. As you can see our fence allows us to look out onto the BLM land.

After Eddie got home and Nate was up from his nap he got to open his presents from Nana and Poppo (Grandma and Grandpa Blubaugh) before we went to dinner. He got a motorized and talking fire engine from Thomas the Train, a Thomas train track and some clothes. He was a happy boy!

We went to Red Robin, a burger place that Nate loved in Vegas mostly because of the balloons. Funny thing was he didn't even want a balloon this time. We all had burgers. Yummy! And Nate got a special dessert with a nice, loud birthday song. He was surprised, but he loved it.

When we got home we got Grandma and Grandpa up on Facetime so they could watch Nate blow out his candles (he didn't care too much about the ice cream and cookie after eating the ice cream at Red Robin) and open his presents.

Nate got his big boy bike from Grandma and Grandpa early before we left so there was nothing to open from them. He got a monster truck, a Jake dress up set and Jake's boat for the bathtub, plus some books. Nate loves to pretend to be Jake, costume or not, but the costume makes it better.

Nate seemed to have a great birthday. Round 2 was the next day to complete our tradition of taking him somewhere fun. I will do a separate post about what we did the next day soon. :)