Lucas Turns 3

Lucas turned 3 last week.  He's been a little spoiled this birthday and all the birthday festivities have lasted a couple weeks because of Disneyland and then the various birthday parties.  He's going to be in for a shock when he realizes he doesn't get new presents every week.  The first birthday celebration was Disney.  Then we had a family dinner with my parents and my brother and his family.  We had it Sunday of last week because my parents had to leave the next day to go pick up my brother Joseph from his mission to Micronesia.  My dad has a really nice camera so I let him take all the pictures, and now they are all stuck halfway across the world.  Oh well, I'm sure he will get around to posting them on his blog when he's done visiting a tropical paradise.  I did get a picture of Lucas playing with his new train set when we got home.  It was well past bedtime but he just would not go to sleep until he had played with every last toy.  He even tried to run through his new sprinkler until he realized it was way too cold.

Then on Lucas's birthday we went to Fairyland.  Then the next day Ryan's parent's came in for a visit.  We opened more presents with them.  Lucas is wearing one of his birthday presents from John and Becky.  I love this shirt, I just have to figure out how to convince Lucas to unbotton the top button.

Lucas got a bunch of books from grandma and grandpa George.  He's really into the pigeon books by Mo Willems right now.

He also got this Iron Man action figure and he takes it everywhere.

Lucas isn't a huge fan of cake and ice cream, but he loves cookies so I made him some cookies and stuck candles in those for him to blow out.

The next day we took grandma and grandpa into the city to do a bit of sight seeing.  We went to the California Academy of Sciences.  They had some fun exhibits including a big aquarium section.  Fish are Lucas's favorites.  Here we are touching the starfish and sea urchins.

 They had a tunnel with fish swimming up and around you.  We stopped for a snack in the tunnel.  This isn't a great picture, but I love how huge that fish is swimming past Lucas.

We got a little bit more time in with grandma and grandpa before they had to leave the next day.  Lucas liked having them help him with his trains.  This is the one and only picture I have to prove that they were actually here.  I'm bad at taking pictures of anything besides Lucas sometimes.

And now things are getting back to normal for us.  Hopefully Lucas will get used to it not being his birthday anymore.

Stats for Lucas at age 3

Weight - 32 lbs
Height - 38 inches, just barely too small for any of the big rides at Disneyland
Favorite color - Red
Favorite animal - Dinosaurs (he answered this question himself)
Favorite foods - cheeseburgers, mac n cheese, or even better - cheeseburger mac
Favorite Pastimes - playing at the park, playing with cars and trains, running through the sprinkler, and reading books with mommy and daddy

His talking has really advanced lately, he's starting to use complete sentences instead of just getting the key words in there.  For instance, we've been talking at the dinner table and asking him about his day.  We ask him the favorite part of his day and he always responds,"The favorite part my day... playing park mommy."  Or something along those lines.  But just the other day he said, "The favorite part of my day was playing trains with daddy."  I couldn't believe how well he said it.  He has also started responding to questions with "sure do" instead of "yes".  It cracks me up every time.  We're having a lot of fun with this little kid of ours.  He is definitely not a baby anymore, which is really weird to us when we think about it, but we're getting used to it.  Happy Birthday, Lucas!