Another Birthday Celebration on Sunday....For Another Sweet 3 Year Old!

Sunday morning found us lazing about the house.  What better way to wind down after such a festive Saturday afternoon.  We had spent Saturday after the party opening gifts;  as always our friends were extremely generous...

  

After I put him to bed on Saturday I put most of his gifts back in their bags, and he was thrilled to re-open them on Sunday morning.  Two early faves were the floor Melissa and Doug transportation puzzle from Cousins Scotty and William and his Thomas chair from Hannah.  Humorously he keeps calling the chair cover his umbrella cover for his chair :)

We headed out for some grocery shopping along with his new favorite Thomas book along with his baby doll. 

 

He was sure to show the book off to everyone in Whole Foods who oohed and ahhed over it with him.  Home for lunch and then it was time to head off in the car for a nap on our way to Alie's 3rd birthday party at Pump It Up!  (what a fun-filled birthday weekend!)  Tate was a bit grumpy at first as he woke up right when we arrived after napping a good hour, and he is not a fan of large slides these days.  But he got into his groove and had a great time with his little daycare buddies.

So

Much 

Fun!

Posing with the birthday girl!

More cake!!

 

We ventured down to my parents' for a while after the party, and Tate and his papa did their train watching on Papa's iPad after he opened his festive train set from Alie!!

Home again for dinner and bedtime which did NOT go well this evening.  I put him in bed around 7:45 and at 8 he was starting to fuss and cry.  I wanted to get started on putting together his birthday gift...a Jeep Wrangler Power Wheels car which I knew would take me a while.  In my garage.  With my pink tools.  In the sticky, humid, mosquito filled evening.  I opted to let him try to work it out himself and went on down to the garage.  I don't know if hearing the garage door go up upset him even more for fear I was leaving, but he became hysterical, and I was not happy.  I went on back upstairs and barged into the room to see what was wrong and he was apopletic.  Hiccupping tears and sobbing.  I picked him up out of the crib and calmed my sweet boy down;  I really think he thought I left the house, though how he heard the garage door go up over his sound machine and lullaby CD I don't know, because he never hears anything else.  Anyway, I rocked him to sleep and in fact when I did finally make it to bed after midnight I put him in bed with me.

So, why did I not make it to bed until midnight?

All the many pieces!

Halfway done!!!

Ta-Da!!!

Though the assembly instructions said to allow at least 30 minutes for assembly of the Power Wheels Jeep Wrangler, it did not say it could take over 2 hours.  2 hours and 15 minutes to be exact.  But I did it.  All on my own!!  It turned out just great!  I collapsed into bed at 12:17am, my sweet little boy beside me :)