Spencer's Month of Birthdays

We definitely brought in Spencer's 3rd birthday with a bang! First we had his little friend party, then we had an official family party with Grandma and Grandpa, aunts and cousins, then we had an unofficial party just with our family and Grandpa...and THEN it was his real birthday! Lucky kid. I think he got sung "Happy Birthday" to like, 20 times over the course of the month!

Party #1 a few weeks ago.

Party #2 last week at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Spencer LOVED his sign and crown Aunt Emily made for him. Emily likes to call him "Spenc-aroni," hence the bowl of macaroni noodles on his sign. He liked the sign so much I caught him picking pieces off of it and eating them right before we left. Hopefully the dried glue didn't do too much damage!

Grandma and Grandpa gave Spencer a "Cars" helmet and pads so he wouldn't have to be humiliated anymore by wearing Janelle's pink one. :) He loved it! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!

Blowing out candles for the second time!

Cousin Mark's birthday is a week and a half before Spencer's so we had a combined birthday party for the boys.

Party #3 the day before his birthday. My dad came over for Sunday dinner (because my Mom and sister are out of town), so we had Spencer's final birthday bash.

Blowing candles out for the 3rd time!
(This time just in ice cream...I was tired of baking. And ice cream is his favorite treat anyway.)

Bottoms up!

Opening presents, yet again! Spencer has been talking about a "big basketball" for a few months. So we let him pick out his own basketball at Target the day before. I love how easy he is to please!

Then Janelle found a fun way to entertain herself while Spencer finished opening presents.
Spencer loves, loves, loves Legos and every time we go somewhere where there are "big boy" Legos (AKA: the teeny tiny ones that get lost everywhere and kill your feet when you step on them) he is totally enthralled by them. So Grandma and Grandpa Mammen got him his first set of non-baby Legos. He LOVES them! This is Spencer telling Janelle, "You can make a dump truck, a steam roller and a bulldozer." Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!!! He's already spent hours playing with them!

I think Kyle had just as much fun playing with the Legos as Spencer!

The birthday boy in the new PJ's I made him...they're construction truck themed, of course.

After so much partying and the fact that Kyle was gone from 7am until 10:30pm, Spencer's real birthday was pretty low key. I was originally going to take the kids swimming, but it rained. Instead we got doughnuts with Daddy, watched morning cartoons (something I rarely let my kids do), played Play-Doh, made zucchini muffins (at Spencer's request), blew bubbles in Mommy's bathtub, played with cousin Mark, read Spencer's favorite books, made mac & cheese for dinner and then played a game before bedtime. I think he had a good day!

Birthday doughnut breakfast...and blowing out candles for the fourth and final time!

The zucchini bread we made, it was yummy!
Bubble blowing in the bath.
Just some cute pictures I took playing around with my camera.

Happy Birthday Spence!! We're glad there's a whole year 'til your next one! :)