J and W turned three about two weeks ago. We were in Tennessee visiting Grandma, Papap, and Uncle P.J. and here is how we spent their special day...
I took a couple of pics of the boys immediately after they woke up...here they are with bed head but looking so cute and grown up:
We made birthday smiley face chocolate chip pancakes and fruit...(yes, those are socks sewn onto their jammie tops so they don't itch at night...normally we take them off before they eat....)
then moved on to opening some birthday cards and gifts...
...then had a birthday lunch at Red Robin where the waitresses brought out big sundaes and sang to them (the boys were disinterested...and didn't touch the ice cream)...they were too busy ocusing on the balloons in the front of the restaurant...
...then we had some yummy cupcakes from a local cupcake bakery (the owner doesn't use eggs in her vanilla and chocolate cupcakes!)
We put candles in the vanilla ones because they looked birthday-ish....but then put out the chocolate one soon after and the boys are definitely my boys...forget the vanilla--they went for the chocolate!
...and then we watched them enjoy all their new trinkets for the rest of the day to include life-like wooden snakes daddy sent from overseas....and hand-carved wooden flutes....our little snake charmers....
I ordered the Williams-Sonoma train cake pan on e-bay before their birthday but it was sent to our house instead of my parent's house....so we will be making a train cake when Geoff gets home so he can celebrate with us too.
