THREE!

Our "baby" boy turned 3 last week. We celebrated heartily. Aaron showed his age by taking the initiative to get himself dressed. He's been dressing himself with a decent degree of success for a few weeks now, but here he is when he picked out his own clothes and got absolutely no direction from mom or sister. It made me smile. Thursday also being Chinese New Year, we made Chinese dumplings... or rather I made Chinese dumplings, but the kids certainly enjoyed eating them.

Friday, we tried to set up my dad's old train set. Aaron enjoyed running his "Thomas" along the big track but we were unable to get the mechanised engine to work. The kids are pictured opening the box the train set was stored in. I thought it would be a good eye-brow raiser. No pictures of the actual set. Truth be told, it was a mite stressful. Friday evening we picnicked at a playground (and thankfully the area is not lacking for them as special activities had our first 2 choices quite full!).

Saturday we made Aaron's "Choo choo train Thomas" cake. It was a lot of work, looked very amature, but we had a blast and Aaron grinned ear to ear the whole time. And Nathan enjoyed the eating of left-over m&m's.

Saturday evening we watched Snow White in Snow White's cottage! Thanks to Uncle Bert, Snow White is one of the kids favorite movies. Aaron loves the dwarfs antics. The kid has a thing for slapstick. Gamble Place in Port Orange has a house that was built to be like Snow White's cottage. It's a part of the Museum of Arts and Sciences. They were showing the movie and we put in our reservation with Randy's parents. Everyone had a great time.

Sunday morning Grandma Deedee and Grandpa Mac joined us for church. Then when we came home we feasted on lasagna and carrots (Aaron's favorite veggie) and of course the cake and ice cream. Gloria had gone shopping with Grandma and Grandpa for Aaron's birthday present. They both opted for some Thomas pieces and Aaron couldn't be happier. He's played with them non-stop since Sunday.

You may remember Aaron made his debut just after the superbowl of '08. Sunday evening we had another superbowl birth. Our first birth of the season, little "Nina", a ewe lamb born to Button, made her appearance. We're expecting 3 more births in the next month or so.

We're so blessed by the gift of Aaron these last 3 years and we look forward to seeing the mighty man of God he'll grow to be!