Happy Birthday Boy

What a great birthday - or at least I thought so :) I think Liam agrees, it was a GREAT celebration!!! Below are some pics from his true birthday and his party the following weekend.

"Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday My Liam, Happy Birthday To You."

I remember singing that to Liam just three short years ago for the very first time, while he slept in my arms on his first day with me. Scary how quickly time passes - I see now after staying home with Liam really what I was missing before while working full time. I'm just so thankful to be home with him to see all his little changes as they quickly fly by!

Liam and his friends Amelie, Hunter (Liam) and Evan.

The kiddos in the yard (big sissy Avery helping) with the sprinklers.

The dinosaur cake - watch out Martha Stewart I'm comin' for ya!

These crack me up - our present from Aunt Sissy. Above you see Liam closing his eyes while I bring the big box out, then you see him so excited all he could think to do is lift his shirt up and scream when I showed him the picture on the box. Then, after much frustration you see the finished project since the directions were in DUTCH! Thanks Aunt Sissy - Liam is clearly in love with his giant digger - it goes outside, and inside, many times along with the dirt he's dug up in the back. My Dyson is getting a workout :)

Miss Cora giving Liam an aggressive hug!

The cake I bought for the family on his birthday - just enough for the three of us, it was really cute!

Liam and his future wife Amelie - WAY too cute. She's just adorable and Liam was BEYOND excited when she showed up to the party! He came RUNNING inside to tell me AMELIE IS HERE MOMMY AMELIE!!!!!!

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Happy Birthday Weapon

More pics to come...but, here is our obvious favorite present so far today on our birthday. It's Liam's first weapon :) The Marshmallow Shooter! It really is awesome - shoots marshmallows up to 40 feet!!! We've already shot mommy accidentally in the back, and Thor numerous times, not so accidentally point blank in the tushy. Thor is now cowering under my desk terrified - what a brave guard dog?!?!

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The birthday cometh...

Weird to think it's almost here - the big 3! I still can't believe how Liam has transformed before my eyes into a little man (well almost!) I remember holding him for the first time ever thinking to myself "he's too small - I was WAY to big for him to be this small!" and now I can barely hold him period! We've gone from gurgles and spit to words and well, spit many times (we're in a blowing raspberries in your face phase...)

How did we get here? How did three years pass by already? I was (still) spring cleaning this morning (sigh) and started to go through clothing to give away and got a little teary eyed when I went through some shirts that had some funny memories attached to them. I now have a box of tshirts to start making a tshirt blankie for him mostly because I just couldn't part with the shirts. It's like a little piece of him is attached to those shirts and I have to keep them!!

My precious little man keeps telling me his birthday is in 2 minutes - I can't bear to tell him it's a day away! We've also been saying we don't feel good all morning so cross your fingers that we aren't sick yet again on our birthday - we've had ear infections on both of our other birthdays previously so it's par for the course I suppose. Well, we have only one birthday errand to run today and that's to go get giant poster board to make our McPherson family traditional birthday number on the front door for tomorrow. Neighbors don't be afraid - we hang the age number of the birthday kiddo on the door only for a day :)

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