Andrew's Birthday

Today, Andrew had his 3rd birthday. He had a fun day. All day long, he kept asking, "is it still my birthday?" And when we said yes, he would get a big, huge smile on his face. We made some cinnamon rolls for breakfast that we had seen on Good Eats last night. Mmmm.
Then we blew up some big, caterpillar-shaped balloons for the kids to beat each other up with.

Since we have church in the afternoon right now, we let Andrew open his presents later in the morning so he could take some with him to church. You can see that his siblings were a great help in opening his presents. They didn't seem to think he could do a good job of ripping paper. His parents, on the other hand, know that he is very good at destroying things.


He got a baseball mitt ( he was the only one in the family who didn't already have one), a set of dragon toys, and some little superheroes.





Here he is making his dragons roar at each other. They roared all through church, so they will get to stay home in the future.







After dinner, we had cake. I was going to decorate it all fancy--he wanted a monster cake--but in the end I ran out of both energy for decorating and powdered sugar for frosting. So he got sprinkles, which he liked just as much. Here he is telling everyone how old he is. The ability to hold up two or three fingers is a new one for Andrew and he's rather proud of it. Up until recently, he could only hold one finger or all five. Hopefully, by next year, he will also master the ability to hold up 4 fingers.