Happy 3rd Birthday Austen!

I can't believe Austen is three. It seems like just yesterday that I had him. I'm sure I'll be saying that when he's 10, 20 and 30 too! Anyway, Austen woke up this morning and saw his presents waiting for him by his chair at breakfast. He thought Santa brought him more presents. I guess that's the problem with having your birthday so close to Xmas! It's confusing for a three-year-old! I'm sure by next year he'll get it.

Next year, we'll also have to have a "friend" party for him. He keeps talking about all his friends from school helping him celebrate his birthday but we decided to hold off on a kid birthday party for Austen for another year given that we were going to have a newborn. He'll still be celebrating next weekend with family so he'll get to blow out even more birthday candles! I'm sure he'll be fine with that especially with all his cousins there.

Austen did, however, get to celebrate his birthday with his friends at school. Tom and I stayed up late last night baking muffins for his classmates. (Cupcakes are a thing of the past - only somewhat healthy treats for kids these days at school!)So his class sang happy birthday to him and Tom said when he got to school this morning, the first thing he did was make a grand entrance and announce to everyone that today was his birthday. No chance that he was going to be overlooked on his special day! Here's Austen opening up his presents this morning and a photo (above) of him telling us he's three!