I feel terrible because I promised myself when Carter was born that his birthday would NOT be neglected even though it was on New Year's Eve, and here I am almost three weeks late, blogging about his birthday! I have just not been motivated to blog since the whole Christmas hooplah ended.
Anyway, we did have a really fun birthday for our little Carter man. He really wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese's as a family to celebrate and since his birthday is on New Year's Eve, it is convenient that Daddy doesn't have to work! So we all headed there for lunch and had a great time.
Rylynn was loving the rides! We couldn't get her to play many games and I tried to explain to her that you don't win tickets by riding the rides, but she didn't seem to care.
Carter on the other hand loved all the games involving balls.
Don't worry, we always let Carter cheat on ski ball.
Rylynn loves this helicopter ride!
Beck was loving all the excitement too. He especially liked watching Carter and Rylynn play the games and see all the flashy lights.
Now that is one happy boy! Carter found the helicopter ride and was a big fan.
Rylynn loved the princess carriage ride and she especially loved taking little Beck for a ride!
I love this picture! She is such a great little helper with her baby brother.
Again Carter found a ball game, and yes, again he is cheating:)
This is when we told Carter it was time to open presents!
Carter loved getting more Cars cars! He got his "nodders" as he calls them. Snot Rod, DJ, Wingo, and Boost. We are seriously helping Disney out with this current obsession!
He was one happy boy!
Here he is opening his present from Nana and Papa. They got him "big jet" from Little Einsteins and "frank" with a track from Cars.
This was clearly the highlight of the day. In fact, after he opened his presents, he pretty much never left the table. He just sat there and played with his new toys while Garrett and I went and played games to quickly rack up as many tickets as we could so the kids would have enough to buy something.
Rylynn and I enjoyed our pizza while we watched Carter open all his presents.
Rylynn and Daddy going head to head in the water squirter race! It was intense! Rylynn does not like losing:)
After Chuck E Cheese we headed home and got the house ready for a little get together for cake and ice cream with some friends. It started to snow real snow for the first time since we've lived here and the kids were so excited. So while I was running around getting ready, Rylynn and Daddy were out back making "Maisy" our little snow friend.
Unfortunately, a couple hours before the little party, we had two friends of Carter's cancel so we were down to two families. However, Garrett's cousin Stacey brought her whole family to support Carter and that made his day. We also had our good friends the Slacks come over. We ate this yummy cake, which of course was chocolate since Carter is my little chocolate boy, along with some superman ice cream!
Carter got really shy all of a sudden when we started to sing Happy Birthday to him and ran to Daddy, but then he came back and with Rylynn's help blew out the candles.
Stacey's family got Carter two great books that he LOVES! One is Library Lion and the other is A tree named Steve. We read them both that night and they were both so cute.
Then as a joke the Slacks gave Carter a bag of gumballs. This is a joke because we went to their house for Christmas dinner on Christmas day and their girls had received gumball machines for Christmas and Carter throughout the course of the night ate every single one of their gumballs!!! We tried to hide them numerous times but every time he came down the stairs he had a new wad of gum in his cheek. We felt really bad and promised to buy them some new gumballs. So they ended up buying Carter some for his birthday. It was really funny to the adults. Carter did not get it, he was just excited for more gum! The other funny thing about this gift is that Rylynn HATES gum. She can't even see someone chewing it without gagging, so when he opened the gumballs she was like "Carter, don't chew those by me, or I'll throw up!" She's so funny.
We love our little Carter boy! I just want to remember that he loves to play with his sister and he loves to tackle and be crazy with his Daddy. He is such a sweet and kind little boy, but he also knows how to be crazy and have so much fun. We are constantly entertained by him. He has such a sweet little voice and we love hearing what he has to say. Even though, it's usually about something from "Cars". He is learning to like primary and doing better each week. We are so proud of him since he turned three the DAY before the cutoff for sunbeams. He loves chocolate and pretty much all food. He is so not a picky eater, which I really appreciate. Carter also got tubes put in his ears a couple months ago and it has been night and day for him. No more constant ear infections, and also he can hear so much better and as a result, talk so much more clearly. Poor kid couldn't hear cause his ears were always infected. He is not potty trained yet, but we are working on it. Hopefully soon! Happy birthday Cartchie boy!
