Fireworks Season

Fireworks season is in full swing for Ryan right now, although things have been rather calm this year. Since Ryan gets home late most nights we decided to go see him at work tonight. Christian LOVES to go to daddy's work. We got McDonalds for dinner and headed to the TNT warehouse. Ryan's job is really a perfect fit for him. It's got the "blue collar" aspects the farm boy in him loves. And it's got many "white collar" aspects to it that the college grad. needs to stay challenged. Ryan manages the distribution center you'll see in these pictures and he also manages a sales team for their North East division.
Ryan continues to work while we're there, but managed to give Christian a ride in the "big wagon."
Can you see why Daddy's work is so much fun??

Christian's favorite thing to do is play hide and seek in the warehouse. I stay with him the entire time because he really could get lost in the 180,000 sq. foot warehouse and I'm always afraid the incredibly tall stacks of boxes could come tumbling down. So we hide and daddy seeks!
Hmmm.. looking for a good hiding spot.
He found one!

This might just be the cutest thing you'll see all day:

Happy 3rd Birthday Christian - Pictures

WARNING: You are about to witness an absolute overkill of birthday pictures! I'm posting a ton because I'm going to get my blog printed as a book and I want all these pictures in there, so I hope this doesn't completely bore you. I guess it must not if you keep checking in with us. I know that I'll never tire of looking at all of these sweet faces, but this might be a bit much for some of you. You've been warned!

My precious 3 year old.
Abigail Rose
Emma Ruth

Christian praying before our meal. He likes to pray at every meal. If someone else wants to pray that's okay with him so long as he gets to pray too. Abby prayed at dinner tonight too and she prayed especially for Christian since it was his birthday.

What a big girl she is! Binky Buddies!

For those of you who are worried...I promise neither of these children will be taking the binkies to Kindergarten. They'll be gone long before that. Sometimes you just need a snuggle moment with your favorite comfort item and Nate adores his little cousin McKenna.
McKenna loved Christian's sleeping bag because she could really wiggle around on it. She scooted off it several times. I guess the days of leaving her on the couch or my bed are over. We've got a mover on our hands.

A very exciting giant package from Aunt Angel arrived earlier this week!! Christian asked me several times if Angel was going to come to his party. We missed you Aunt Angel and Uncle Sam. Thanks for thinking of Christian!
Does Aunt Angel know her nephew well or what? A Thomas book and a Cars book.
Nate was delighted that there were 2 books.

Christian's big gift was this awesome little Tonka bike with training wheels. He has been talking about wanting a bike with a bell for weeks now. Much to my dismay he hardly gave it a glance. He was much more excited about the dinosaur sand diggers that Grandmom got him from the dollar store.
We tried to get him interested in his bike, but he quickly left the scene and headed to the backyard to play in his sandbox.
So Nate seized the moment and hopped on Christian's bike. He was a little bit too short, but he didn't seem to notice. He loved it.
Meanwhile, Christian was busy digging with his dinos in the backyard.
He finally took some interest later in the day. His favorite part was the water bottle that came with the bike. He took it to bed tonight.

This is the $5 workbench that I got at a yard sale this morning!! Our neighbor Nicholas has the same one and Christian spends lots of time in their garage playing with their stuff, so I thought for five bucks he should have his own.

A new Lightning McQueen sleeping bag from the Marshalls. He's sleeping in it right now.


Mimi (Aunt Amy) bought all the kids stuffed sting rays when she went to an Aquarium restaurant this week when she went to Nashville. She's so smart, the same thing for each kid. No fighting!! Emma is so dear...she was upset when she found out that Amy didn't buy one for McKenna , so Emma gave hers to McKenna. I love the kind heart that is growing in that girl.

Look at the glee on that face when he got a new Thomas train. ($1 at a yard sale! Can you believe someone would sell Thomas trains for a dollar? I bought them all!)

Christian's 3rd Birthday Party - Videos

Happy Birthday Christian!

Christian got a new bike for his birthday from Ryan and I and Grammy and Grampy Chatt. I thought he was going to be really excited about it because he's been talking about wanting a bike for weeks and he even told us he wanted a bell on it. Much to my dismay he took one look at his bike and then went right back to playing with his dinosaur sand toys that Grandmom got him from the Dollar Store. Yup, that right...he prefers the dollar dinos over the beautiful bike we got him. That's a three year old for you!

Yum Yum

LOOK who tried rice cereal for the first time!! I don't think she actually ate that much. Her little tongue was so busy pushing it out of her mouth that I doubt she swallowed much at all. She had fun with it anyway! I'm sure she'd figure out how to swallow it if I gave her something a little more tasty, like bananas. Maybe sometime in the next few weeks!

You never want to hear this:

Abby yells, "Auntie Judy, the boys have your blue hairspray and they're getting it everywhere!"

3yr Old Photographer

This is what you get when you give your three year old your digital camera so he'll be entertained why you try to get some stuff done. I told him to be careful and he told me about 15 times that he was being careful. I think he was afraid I was going to change my mind and take the camera away, since it's usually a "no touch" item.

So which one is your favorite? I think I like the feet the best. I think it's hysterical that he took a picture of his own feet. He actually took about 30 pictures of McKenna. I think she was entertained by it all. He also took tons of pictures of the carpet, but I didn't want to totally bore you. This post is boring enough!

In case you've been wondering. This is the first day that I can say McKenna is actually feeling better. We've had some scary moments over the last few days since she's really had some difficulty breathing. I've had to do breathing treatments at 3 am, but she seems better today. Still not sleeping well, which is wearing on me, but I know that things are improving.