Happy Birthday Preston!

My baby is three! Three! Where did the time go? The day prior to his birthday we went to go see Dr. Ain. We literally walked in and out. Obviously the holidays are not times when most people schedule orthopedic surgery so the waiting room was so quiet except for another precious little girl who was there to see Dr. Ain as well. His x-rays look great-slight bowing in the legs and a perfect back! Preston was so excited that he got to see his bones on the screen. Dr. Ain was impressed with Preston and now we don't have to go back for another year!

It took Preston all day to open his gifts. He gets very overwhelmed and usually just needs three things and that is it. I thought he would have torn into gifts this year, but not so much. That should make Christmas a week long event with all the crap I already bought!

After breakfast we went to the Richmond Christmas Parade. It was really cute-it was no Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but really captivating for the kids. There were balloons, floats, clowns, horses and of course fire trucks and police which were the hit for Preston. (And the flying panda balloon-I have no idea why but he took quite a liking to the panda). We met up with Roman and Anni and adorable Ethan. It was really fun even though after three hours in the cold poor Preston and I were both shivering. There was just this huge discussion on achon kids and sweating on POLP. That was Preston as a baby only. He grew out of that faze quickly-I have the kid who is always cold. "Mommy I'm cold. " His impression of shivering is so funny too.

We also had a big cake and I bought him his birthday balloon (a tradition in our house). The past two years I have had these huge parties and although they were a lot of fun, it was actually nice to be low key this year. The cool thing about his last two parties was I did them at my house with my family and friends. Emily knows how much food we would have! It was so much fun and I would pick a theme. This year, being that we are new down here, I was not too keen on having a party and feeding all the parents whose names I don't even know. So what I did instead was take Preston out and let him pick out party plates, cups, napkins and hats for school along with bubbles for each kid. Then we baked cupcakes together for his party in school. Apparently his party was a HUGE hit. I think next year we will go all out again when I at least know who it is I am feeding :-) Here is Preston making his cupcakes. I wanted to take Preston tonight to the Living Nativity but he was so cranky from spending three hours this morning out in the cold I was not going to push it. Here is Preston with his cake. Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend.

May all your wishes come true baby!